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Re: Branch Name Case Sensitivity

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LHLee Hopkins <leerhop@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2014, 14:21 UTC
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> I don't think this distinction is necessary, either you have a case-insensitive file system or you don't. The case
> that the .git directory is case-sensitive and the worktree directory isn't (or the other way around) is
> probably so exotic that we can ignore it.

I think Torsten's use case was for someone who is carefully curating their loose and packed-refs, e.g. gc.packrefs = false. This could be for backwards compatibility (existing ambiguous refs whose names cannot be changed for some reason) or simply because they want to.

> If you want to prevent problems with Windows/Mac OS, you should set core.ignorecase = true. I don't see why we need
> yet another config setting for refs (and logs?).

Since refs.ignorecase falls back to core.ignorecase, you could just set core.ignorecase = true and feel safe when sharing with Windows/Mac OS. I think having the distinction just makes Git more flexible, OTOH I can see how having both refs.ignorecase and core.ignorecase could be confusing and possibly redundant.

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Message 18 of 27 in “Branch Name Case Sensitivity”
  1. Lee HopkinsFeb 26, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2014
  3. Torsten BögershausenFeb 27, 2014
  4. Lee HopkinsFeb 27, 2014
  5. Michael HaggertyFeb 27, 2014
  6. Karsten BleesFeb 27, 2014
  7. Lee HopkinsFeb 27, 2014
  8. Johannes SixtFeb 28, 2014
  9. Karsten BleesFeb 28, 2014
  10. Lee HopkinsFeb 28, 2014
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2014
  12. Duy NguyenFeb 28, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2014
  14. Lee HopkinsMar 1, 2014
  15. Torsten BögershausenMar 1, 2014
  16. Lee HopkinsMar 1, 2014
  17. Karsten BleesMar 3, 2014
  18. Lee HopkinsMar 3, 2014
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2014
  20. Karsten BleesMar 4, 2014
  21. Torsten BögershausenMar 4, 2014
  22. Lee HopkinsMar 5, 2014
  23. Michael HaggertyFeb 28, 2014
  24. Duy NguyenFeb 28, 2014
  25. Michael HaggertyFeb 28, 2014
  26. Stephen LeakeFeb 28, 2014
  27. Michael HaggertyFeb 28, 2014

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