Re: Odd Difference Between Windows Git and Standard Git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 23, 2016, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1605231700380.4449@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <6e4862b8-b5ab-ced4-29a0-bf975848e98f@gmail.com>

Hi Jon,

On Mon, 23 May 2016, Jon Forrest wrote:

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> On 5/23/2016 4:12 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > What we could do is to make the default config setting platform-dependent,
> > a la CRLF_NATIVE.
> >
> > I imagine that we would want this for core.filemode, core.ignorecase and
> > core.symlinks.
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> Would this change have any bad effects when the same repo is shared
> by both Windows and *nix Git users over Dropbox or a shared filesystem?

Yes, if you have symbolic links in that repository. Likewise, if you have users who find it funny to add different files whose names only differ in their case, say, xt_DSCP.c and xt_dscp.c.

Also, if your Windows users want to add scripts, they will most likely not mark them executable and your Linux users will call them names (forgetting that they know just as little about the other platform as the developers they try to ridicule).

Lots of fun things to keep in mind when sharing the same working directory between Operating Systems.

But you said "when the same repo is shared"? Do you really mean the *repository*? If so, there is not a problem. Only if you add a working directory into the mix.

Ciao, Johannes