From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 18:19:11 GMT Subject: Re: Possible minor bug in Git Message-ID: <788eefef-f677-f0ce-7e02-dd85b11da78a@iee.org> In-Reply-To: Hi Guiseppe, On 07/02/2019 19:41, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Giuseppe, > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Giuseppe Crinò wrote: > >> I wanted to have a look at the bug, and I can correctly reproduce it using version 2.20.1.windows.1. Thank you for having a look. The root cause of the issues will most probably be use of a case insensitive file system on Windows (and Mac). There is a configuration flag `core.ignoreCase` [1] that is normally auto detected that can be used to decide when the checks should be done and advice [2] or warnings given. There are also similar case issues with branch names should you want to go that far. In any case you should probably at least cover the full utf-8 filenames, not just ascii ones. >> >> To start to even think of fixing this bug I need to build the source for Windows, but I got lost on how to do that. > Does this help? > > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Building-Git > > Ciao, > Johannes > >> Is it correct that I should cross-compile from a POSIX system (GNU/Linux), using x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc and Gnulib to produce a static executable? >> >> Am I missing something? How does people here build for Windows? >> >> Giuseppe -- Philip [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#git-config-coreignoreCase [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#git-config-advice