From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:32:39 GMT Subject: Re: Cygwin: problem with renaming and case Message-ID: <7vtzizmwd4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > So I agree, in this case the "remove files that go away first" would work > around the problem, and we could look into whether that is reasonable in > some cases, but in general it's not trivial either. I think we have two phase "remove then create" in git-apply for an entirely different reason (we do check before doing any removal or creation). > My personal guess is that it's probably better to start teaching git about > case-broken filesystem, even if we start it with some common special case > rather than getting every case right from the beginning. Hmm. I have to say I am not very enthused by the prospect, as I agree with your reasoning in your earlier message why this has been lower priority ("sane people when forced to use case corrupting systems avoid problematic paths to make this a non-issue anyway"). My feeling is that this falls into the "when we are bored to death and have absolutely nothing better to do" category.