From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:31:27 GMT
Subject: Re: On pathnames
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801241722130.22568@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vprvr7x8h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> If it is a new file, we won't find any name that is equivalent
> to $A in the index, and we use the name $A obtained from
> readdir(3).
> 
> BUT with a twist.
> 
> If the filesystem is known to be inconveniently case folding, we
> are better off registering $B instead of $A (assuming we can
> convert from $A to $B).

Why?

If you have no other representation for the file name than $A already, 
then I don't see why Git would have to play similar evil games and 
corru^H^H^Hnvert $A into $B.  Just store $A in the index and tree 
objects and be done with it.


Nicolas