Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2010, #07; Wed, 29)

From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2010, 04:36 UTC
Message-ID: <4CA80854.90108@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vocbgkrw5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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From: Junio C Hamano
Date: 9/29/2010 6:16 PM

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> * jj/icase-directory (2010-08-16) 6 commits
>   - Support case folding in git fast-import when core.ignorecase=true
>   - Support case folding for git add when core.ignorecase=true
>   - Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files
>   - Add case insensitivity support for directories when using git status
>   - Case insensitivity support for .gitignore via core.ignorecase
>   - Add string comparison functions that respect the ignore_case variable.
>
> Depends on GNU FNM_CASEFOLD.  Presumably a bit of tweak in Makefile for
> non-windows but non-GNU platforms is all it takes?

I posted a new series with an alternate solution for fnmatch that doesn't rely on GNU FNM_CASEFOLD. Hopefully, this one is okay.

I have begun working on tests, but I'm still trying to pick through basic shell scripting and then determine how the existing test suite works.

Josh