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Re: [BUG] git-filter-branch and filename case changes on insensitive file systems

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 10, 2007, 13:39 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0710101436570.4174@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
> My repo has a change where a directory named Src was renamed to src.
That is no problem for git-filter-branch.
> I'm using case insensitive HFS+.
That is the problem.

Of course, we could work around that in git, but frankly, you will turn into problems once you have files whose names differ only in case. And I am certain somebody will come soon and report this as a bug in git!

I vote for wont-fix (or more accurately "invalid") in git and please-fix-in-your-setup.

Ciao, Dscho

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