Re: [PATCH 0/7] Various updates to make core.ignorecase=true work better

From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: May 26, 2010, 18:26 UTC
Message-ID: <4BFD67BA.2050105@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <1274417435-2344-1-git-send-email-jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>

  ----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Jensen
Date: 5/20/2010 10:50 PM

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> Joshua Jensen (7):
>    Add string comparison functions that respect the ignore_case
>      variable.
>    Case insensitivity support for .gitignore via core.ignorecase
>    Add case insensitivity support for directories when using git status
>    Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files
>    Add support for case insensitive directory and file lookups to git
>      log
>    Support case folding for git add when core.ignorecase=true
>    Support case folding in git fast-import when core.ignorecase=true

Would this patch series be better sent to the msysGit mailing list, given that it addresses Windows (and Mac OS X, I suppose) case preserving but case insensitive file system issues? I posted here first, because it builds on some core.ignorecase functionality Linus wrote.

Thanks.

Josh