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Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2012, 21:08 UTC
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PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:
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> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> underlying system calls like open("foo") will *not* magically start
>> returning a file descriptor opened for "FOO" if your filesystem is not
>> case insensitive.
>
> No, but magic_open("foo") might, if someone had put forth the effort
> to write a function called magic_open.
Exactly.

That is why we avoid describing what happens when you set it on a case sensitive filesystem, to leave the door open for such a cleverness.

It may still be a mistake in the manual that we did not explicitly say that setting core.ignorecase on a case sensitive system will give you an undefined behaviour.

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  1. Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'Peter J. Weisberg, Mar 21, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2012
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  4. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  5. Thomas RastMar 23, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2012
  7. Jeff KingMar 23, 2012
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  9. Johannes SixtMar 22, 2012
  10. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 22, 2012
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  12. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
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  15. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
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  17. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 22, 2012
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  20. PJ WeisbergMar 22, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  22. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
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