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Re: Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case

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Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date
Feb 12, 2010, 20:38 UTC
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On 12 Feb 2010 19:19:00 +0100, gmane2010@cfaerber.name (Claus Färber) wrote:

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> David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> schrieb/wrote:
>> If you have 2 entities in a directory which have names differing only
>> in case, e.g. "foo" and "FOO", under a REAL operating system with case
>> sensitive file system semantics, this is no problem. However, under
>> Windows and their wonderful "Case preserving but case insensitive"
>> semantics, "FOO" and "foo" would be the same file,...
> 
> Mac OS X has the same problem.

Only by default. You can choose to use a case sensitive filesystem if you wish.

> Further, it does not preserve the Unicode normalisation form.
Unfortunately you can't choose to turn this off. :(
-- 
Julian
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Message 6 of 7 in “Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case”
  1. David HagoodFeb 12, 2010
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 12, 2010
  3. Pete HarlanFeb 12, 2010
  4. david.hagood@gmail.comFeb 12, 2010
  5. Claus FärberFeb 12, 2010
  6. Julian PhillipsFeb 12, 2010
  7. Daniel BarkalowFeb 13, 2010

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