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Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: declare "core.ignorecase" as internal variable

From
Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Date
Jun 28, 2018, 11:36 UTC
Message-ID
<8f01e60e-2f4f-49dd-277a-845363554fa9@syntevo.com>
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On 27.06.2018 21:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com> writes:
> 
>> [1. text/plain]
>> The current description of "core.ignoreCase" reads like an option which
>> is intended to be changed by the user while it's actually expected to
>> be set by Git on initialization only. Subsequently, Git relies on the
>> proper configuration of this variable, as noted by Bryan Turner [1]:
>>
>>      Git on a case-insensitive filesystem (APFS, HFS+, FAT32, exFAT,
>>      vFAT, NTFS, etc.) is not designed to be run with anything other
>>      than core.ignoreCase=true.
>>
>> [1] https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152998665813997&w=2
>>      mid:CAGyf7-GeE8jRGPkME9rHKPtHEQ6P1+ebpMMWAtMh01uO3bfy8w@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/config.txt | 9 ++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Hmph.  Do other people have difficulty applying this patch to their
> trees?  It is just several lines long so I could retype it myself,
> but I guess "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed"
> has destroyed formatting of the patch rather badly.

I had copy-pasted the patch into Thunderbird. The received email was looking fine in the inbox, however it seems that some leading whitespaces have been added to several lines (when comparing raw contents of v3 and v4). I have resent the patch with git send-email now.

-Marc
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  1. Documentation: declare "core.ignorecase" as internal variableMarc Strapetz, Jun 24, 2018
  2. Eric SunshineJun 24, 2018
  3. Documentation: declare "core.ignorecase" as internal variableMarc Strapetz, Jun 24, 2018
  4. Sascha SilbeJun 24, 2018
  5. Torsten BögershausenJun 24, 2018
  6. Documentation: declare "core.ignorecase" as internal variableMarc Strapetz, Jun 26, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2018
  8. Aaron SchrabJun 27, 2018
  9. Marc StrapetzJun 28, 2018
  10. Documentation: declare "core.ignoreCase" as internal variableMarc Strapetz, Jun 28, 2018
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2018
  12. Torsten BögershausenJun 28, 2018

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