From: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:17:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git and file name case on cygwin
Message-ID: <45C5EAFE.6030900@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <1170597557.7538.12.camel@localhost>

Niklas Höglund wrote:
> It's true that I don't intend to do any Linux development on a Windows
> system. I'd use a Linux system or a Linux VM for that. I do on occasion
> have a look through the Linux source code when I'm struggling with some
> badly documented hardware, but I could use a tarball for that. (I guess
> the netfilter code would still get mangled, but I can live with that.)
>
> Niklas
>   
Note that cygwin provides mananged mounts (mount -omanaged) that handles 
files whose names differ only in case. The names are of course mangled 
when exploring via native windows tools but not cygwin tools. e.g.,

t>touch file1 File1
t>ls
File1  file1
t>cmd /c dir /b
%46ile1
file1

Mark