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Re: Modified files directly after clone

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TTarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2010, 21:59 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Benedikt Andreas Koeppel
> How can this happen? Does my Mac somehow interfere with
> the newly cloned repository?

By default HFS+ filesystems on OSX are case insensitive so you see problems like you described with the linux kernel source which has different files named xt_TCPMSS.c and xt_tcpmss.c.

HFS+ partitions can be case sensitive, but are not by default. Unlike some earlier versions, OSX 10.6 can boot from a case sensitive HFS+ filesystem. Even if you do that, OSX (or maybe HFS+) still has issues with unicode normalization described in the archive, but I haven't had a problem with the normalization in practice.

Thanks, Tarmigan

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