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Git an case-insensitive Mac OS X filesystem

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RMRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Date
Sep 11, 2012, 09:21 UTC
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Hello,

I'm using git for all my projects, and I usually work under Mac OS X with the default filesystem (that's case-insensitive, but case-preserving). I'm currently working on a project that has several branches, and two of them are called origin/DHCPCD and origin/dhcpcd respectively, that's unfortunate, but I cannot do anything about it. This completely breaks the git repository, because .git/refs/remotes/origin/DHCPD and .git/refs/remotes/origin/dhcpd are actually the same file, so when I try to update my repository performing a git pull I get the following error:

error: Ref refs/remotes/origin/dhcpcd is at 6b371783de2def2d6e3ec2680ba731f7086067ee but expected 79f701ce599a27043eed8343f76406014963278a

So I was wondering if anyone has stumbled upon this issue, and what's the best approach to fix it.

Thanks, Roger.
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