From: Sam Vilain Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:23:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup/rev-parse: allow HEAD to be spelled 'head' Message-ID: <47080AC4.3040902@catalyst.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <20071005065139.GA2623@steel.home> Alex Riesen wrote: > Sam Vilain, Fri, Oct 05, 2007 05:09:10 +0200: >> If the repository got mangled by FAT capitalization rules, then a ref >> such as "HEAD" will become "head" once it is back on a non-FAT FS. >> Check for this condition in resolve_refs and in the setup code. >> >> Suggested-by: Francois Marier >> Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain >> --- >> This should probably help people putting their git repos on >> FAT USB sticks. > > Can the people just mount FAT partitions with shortname=mixed? Of course, that is probably a solution to the problem, whereas my patch is a workaround. Now, I realise that this might open a can of worms ... would we also want to go looking for files called "pack-ab~1.pac" ? Almost certainly not - but this solves the most immediate problem experienced by people putting their git repositories onto FAT filesystems mounted with the default options, which will say "FATAL: not a git repository" otherwise. Sam.