Re: Git an case-insensitive Mac OS X filesystem

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Tomas Carnecky
> <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:21:16 +0100, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Make a disk image and format it with a case sensitive filesystem (use the Disk
>> Utility to do that). Do your work there.
>
> Yes, I could also create a partition, or format my entire disk to
> case-sensitive (although I heard it might break some OS X
> applications), I guess adding a workaround for this in git itself is
> not appealing (like storing the branch file using a slightly different
> name?)