Re: Windows support

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2007, 09:41 UTC
Message-ID: <46A86C42.8070103@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070726065332.GB18114@spearce.org>

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>>    * Be careful with the case in filenames. Similarly, avoid
>> special chars in filenames.
> 
> This is true. Git doesn't like getting file names with case only 
> differences on such a platform. E.g. just today I wanted to do the
> following:
> 
>   git mv foo.c Foo.c
> 
> but had to instead do:
> 
>   git mv foo.c CRAP && git mv CRAP Foo.c
> 
> because the former won't work on a filesystem that ignores case. I
> have the same problem on my Mac OS X HFS+ volume as it also ignores
> case.

You can turn off case-insensitivity in the Windows kernel, by using RegEdit, and setting the following registry key to 0:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\obcaseinsensitive

I haven't tried it, but it should help your case above. Just keep in mind that you can then check in files which your coworkers can't checkout :-)

-- 
.marius