From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:09:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use "-f" when adding files with odd names in t9200.
Message-ID: <7vr6t6zq2d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkje243u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> ... I suspect that this sequence may not work as
> expected:
>
> 	#!/bin/sh
>
> 	pathname='a pathname that canonicalize differently from original'
> 	rm -fr testrepo
> 	mkdir testrepo
>         cd testrepo
>         git init-db
> 	echo hello >"$pathname"
>         git add -f .
>         git ls-files -s "$pathname"

Addendum.

This is not to make any point but purely for my own education,
but I wonder what would happen on HFS+ to the following
sequence, which does not involve any git operation:

   #!/bin/sh
   LANG=C LC_ALL=C
   export LANG LC_ALL

   pathname='a pathname that canonicalize differently from original'
   rm -fr testrepo
   mkdir testrepo
   cd testrepo
   echo hello >"$pathname"
   /bin/ls | fgrep -e "$pathname"

Doesn't the grep fail to find the file that was successfully
created in the previous step?