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Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows)

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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2007, 10:04 UTC
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El 29/8/2007, a las 11:43, David Kastrup escribió:
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>>> Plenty of people have this setup
>>
>> Agreed...
>>
>>> and we have to suffer.
>>
>> but, don't you think you're exaggerating a bit here? How much
>> "suffering" has this really caused you? I gather that you're not
>> even a user of that operating system;
>
> He is the main worker on the MSYS port of git as far as I can tell,
> while not using Windows as his work platform.  So indeed he gets to
> bear _all_ the pain, and no personal gain.

If you look at the thread, his comments in this instance were about Mac OS X, not Windows.

As for Dscho's Window's-related pain, I do sympathize.

Cheers, Wincent

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