From: Claus Färber <gmane2010@cfaerber.name>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:19:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case
Message-ID: <BIjfD8Ogt6D@mid.cfaerber.name>
In-Reply-To: <1265978433.7519.6.camel@chumley>

David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> schrieb/wrote:
> 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