From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:09:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true' Message-ID: <7v4ntgwdft.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: PJ Weisberg writes: > 2012/3/22 Junio C Hamano : >> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek   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.