Re: [PATCH/RFC] blame: respect "core.ignorecase"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2012, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvcflmxis.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120910161325.GB9435@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> If the proposal were instead to add a certain type of pathspec that is
> case-insensitive[2], that would make much more sense to me. It is not
> violating git's case-sensitivity because it is purely a _query_ issue.
> And it is a feature you might use whether or not your filesystem is case
> sensitive.
> ...
> [2] I did not keep up with Duy's work on pathspec magic-prefixes (and I
>     could not find anything relevant in the code or documentation), but
>     it seems like this would be a logical feature to support there.

I think it mostly is in setup.c (look for "Magic pathspec").