From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:26:55 GMT
Subject: Re: RFD: Handling case-colliding filenames on case-insensitive filesystems
Message-ID: <7v8vx643z4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201102240158.24363.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> On Wednesday 23 February 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I think two things are sensible to do, are relatively low hanging fruits,
>> and are of low risk:
>> 
>>  - break checkout on such a tree on incapable filesystems; and
>
> Wouldn't that be a regression from the current state (where the poor user in 
> a case-insensitive worktree can at least "git rm" the offending files, and 
> keep working without assistance from a case-sensitive worktree)?

Depends on the definition of "break".  I meant "exit with non-zero
status", not necessarily changing what is left in the working tree from
what the current code gives us.