From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:02:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic?
Message-ID: <AANLkTikPcPAGn6VMiD9Mbxfq3rdU4EeHsd32qniYu5VZ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C77DDDC.8070407@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:46 AM, 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.

That's correct, HFS is case-preserving but case-insensitve. There is a
case-sensitive variant but it is not the default and sadly, some
applications assume case-insensitity and will break if the system
volume is otherwise.

j.