From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:25:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'
Message-ID: <4F6B0C3E.8090501@in.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4F6ACB67.1080503@viscovery.net>

On 03/22/2012 07:49 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 3/21/2012 23:50, schrieb Peter J. Weisberg:
>> +test_expect_failure "diff-files doesn't show case change when ignorecase=true" '
>> +	git config core.ignorecase true&&
>> +
>> +	touch foo&&
>> +	git add foo&&
>> +	git commit -m "foo"&&
>> +	mv foo FOO&&
>> +
>> +	test -z "$(git diff-files)"
>> +'
>
> I tried this in my git.git clone on Windows (NTFS), and it did not produce
> the expected failure:
...
> What am I missing?

The OP meant a case-sensitive fs, not an insensitive one.
"On a filesystem that *is* case-sensitive, ..."

This is a question about core.ignorecase=true. The description in 
git-config(1) is so vague, that it's hard to say what behaviour is expected.

Zbyszek