From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:37:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803252035430.2775@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080326024609.GL25381@dpotapov.dyndns.org>



On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> 
> Of course, case-insensitivity is about the working tree only. But when
> I merge another branch to the current one, git normally checks that it
> is not going to overwrite existing files in the *work tree* and refuses
> to do the merge if some files may be overwritten.

I do agree - but this is not really about the *merge*. It is about the 
checkout.

Imagine that the merge had been done on a sane filesystem, and you're just 
pulling it or cloning it. No merge on your machine, but the problem is the 
same.

		Linus