From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:56:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Unexpected local changes immediately after fresh clone
Message-ID: <76718490902122156l547a5bd8j56e48d7d3c7c4438@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490902122141h578a72e3k70366d6583d6c8c3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Ben Hoskings <ben@hoskings.net> wrote:
>> My system is a Mac OS X 10.5.6 box (aluminium MacBook); some details are
>> below.
>
> HFS+ is case-insensitive by default. The Linux kernel has files which
> collide on a case-insensitive filesystem, which is what you're seeing.
>
> Create a disk image using Disk Utility, you can use "Mac OS Extended
> (Case-sensitive)". Check-out the repo to the disk-image.

Or:

$ hdiutil create -size 1g -fs UFS -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight
-attach -volname linux-2.6 linux-2.6
$ cd /Volume/linux-2.6
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

I think SPARSEBUNDLE will be a little friendlier to Time Machine.
Using UFS isn't strictly needed for checking out the kernel repo, but
it's not brain-damaged like HFS+ w/respect to Unicode.

j.