From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:50:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Using Git with windows
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903070350070.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A115E18@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

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?

> 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