Re: linux-2.6 clone with CygWin git

From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date: Nov 9, 2007, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID: <473495E1.3080305@obry.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071109150306.GA20531@old.davidb.org>

David Brown a écrit :

> It's because of the case-insensitive nature of the filesystem.  The kernel
> contains both an xt_connmark.h and an xt_CONNMARK.h file, that are
> different.  But only one exists on Windows, so git sees the first one it
> wrote as having been modified.

Probably not something for the list... but if you ask me this is just bad practice anyway. Casing has no semantic, it is nonsense to have two files with the same name with different casing!

Pascal.

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