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Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'

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PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Date
Mar 22, 2012, 20:40 UTC
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As you've probably deduced, I simply failed to RTFM. I'm not sure you'll gain much by changing the description on the man page, since I thought the name 'ignorecase' was self-explanatory and barely even looked at it. :-/

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> underlying system calls like open("foo") will *not* magically start
> returning a file descriptor opened for "FOO" if your filesystem is not
> case insensitive.

No, but magic_open("foo") might, if someone had put forth the effort to write a function called magic_open. But the more I think about it, the more it seems that doing everything you would need to do to make ignorecase work the way I thought it did is almost certainly not worth the effort.

-PJ

Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

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