Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Mar 22, 2012, 21:09 UTC
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PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:
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> 2012/3/22 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>: >> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> writes: >> >>> Even this updated text does not say _what_ happens when >>> core.ignorecase is set on a case-insensitive filesystem. >> >> That was very much on purpose. We tell users not to do that, because it is >> calling for an undefined behaviour. And leaving it undefined gives us a >> wiggle room to later do something better if we choose to. > > Where do you tell users not to do that? Nothing on the man page > actually says that the behavior is undefined,...
Read the messages in the thread you are responding to. It is a discussion about how we update the documentation to say it.