Re: Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 12, 2010, 13:14 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002121412300.20986@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1265978433.7519.6.camel@chumley>

Hi,

Disclaimer: I am not uninterested in the subject you talk about, but my 
reply could come over as harsh, due to lack of time. If you are likely to 
be annoyed by direct criticism, delete this mail and do not reply. Thank 
you very much.

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, David Hagood wrote:

> I would suggest that git should check for this case, and generate a big 
> warning about it when it happens. (Yes, it sucks burdening Git with 
> Windows' problems....)

Git is burdened with Windows' problems already. That does not suck. What sucks is that you only suggest that Git should check the case, in effect asking the few Git for Windows contributors to do it, instead of just going ahead and scratching your own itch.

Ciao, Dscho