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Re: Using Git with windows

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 7, 2009, 02:50 UTC
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Hi,
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, John Dlugosz wrote:
> I can think of two differences:  Line endings have been mentioned already.
And I have addressed that already, did I not?
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> But, and I was wondering this already anyway, does the Windows git know 
> that the file system is case insensitive but case preserving? That is, 
> does it just ignore the issue, is there logic to cope with that better? 
> If so, that would be missing if you ran it in the Linux VM. (Unless it 
> checks the file system capabilities rather than the OS it is running 
> under)
AFAIR Git recognizes case-insensitive file systems as such.

Hth, Dscho

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