Re: linux-2.6 clone with CygWin git

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 10, 2007, 09:50 UTC
Message-ID: <47357EDF.2000708@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <473495E1.3080305@obry.net>

Pascal Obry wrote:

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> 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!
>

You're right, it's not something for this list. Try arguing your case at the linux kernel mailing list.

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