From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:20:52 GMT
Subject: Re: fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase
Message-ID: <54866A94.2040305@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141209013138.GU16345@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote on 12/8/2014 6:31 PM:
> Joshua Jensen wrote:
>> I think it has been discussed before, but maybe Git needs a
>> core.casefold in addition to core.ignorecase.)
> Would it work for --casefold to be a commandline flag to fast-import,
> instead of a global option affecting multiple Git commands?
Given that core.ignorecase=true means to fold filename case in quite a 
number of places within Git right now, I would expect the same behavior 
within a repository where fast-import is being run against 
core.ignorecase=true.

So, I don't know what core.ignorecase should mean, but I'm pretty sure I 
know what core.foldcase should mean.

Would --casefold work?  Sure, but it would be a special case against the 
existing core.ignorecase behavior that I don't think makes much sense.

Josh