From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:27:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems
Message-ID: <7v7iif28i2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <191B60D7-FD89-48D8-8D48-C91645D4814D@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

> Is there a reason for this? It seems like it would be trivial to end
> up with misdiagnosed "untracked" files when using any language other
> than English given this behaviuor.

No.  The assumption of the code has always been that sane
filesystems would return from readdir() the names you gave from
creat().