From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:39:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic?
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In-Reply-To: <4C77DDDC.8070407@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:46, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

> The journalling is no problem, but HFS is. I'm no Macxpert but if I
> remember correctly, then under HFS "readme" and "README" are the same
> file, i.e. HFS only remembers how you want it spelled. People will
> correct me where I'm wrong.

FWIW this is called "case preserving". Where the filesystem is
case-insensitive so that you can't create both "foo" and "FOO", but it
still remembers if you did "touch Foo", "touch FoO" or whatever.

It affects more filesystems than just HFS.