From: PJ Weisberg Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:40:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vmx79zeui.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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 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.