Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161419140.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4D822762-D344-465E-B77D-90A64D61F5A9@zib.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> On Oct 16, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe we need a configuration similar to core.autocrlf (which controls
> > > newline conversion) to control filename comparison and normalization?
> > > 
> > > Most obviously for the case (in-)sensitivity on Windows, but I also
> > > remember the unicode normalization happening on Mac's HFS filesystem
> > > that caused trouble in the past.
> > 
> > Robin Rosenberg has some preliminary code for that.  The idea is to wrap
> > all filesystem operations in cache.h, and do a filename normalisation
> > first.
> 
> At that point we could add a safety check. Paths that differ only by
> case, or whitespace, or ... (add general and project specific rules here)
> should be denied. This would guarantee that tree objects can always be
> checked out. Even if the filesystem capabilities are limited.

This would be an independent change. The method I talked about only ever looks at one filename, never what is already there.

What you want would probably be all too easy with a pre-commit hook. No need to clutter the git-core with code that is usually not needed (you'd only ever activate it on Linux when other developers use Windows or MacOSX).

Ciao, Dscho