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

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CFClaus Färber <gmane2010@cfaerber.name>
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Feb 12, 2010, 18:19 UTC
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David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> schrieb/wrote:
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> 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.
Further, it does not preserve the Unicode normalisation form.
Claus
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  1. David HagoodFeb 12, 2010
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 12, 2010
  3. Pete HarlanFeb 12, 2010
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  5. Claus FärberFeb 12, 2010
  6. Julian PhillipsFeb 12, 2010
  7. Daniel BarkalowFeb 13, 2010

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