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Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 11, 2008, 22:05 UTC
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<alpine.LSU.1.00.0801112202180.31053@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:
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> On Jan 11, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > If you are serious about this problem, I can give you tons of pointers 
> > how to go solve it.  (Although I might be disconnected this weekend, 
> > because of the lack of competence of the IT department here.)
> 
> I think I've got a handle on it. I've already expunged the mis-cased 
> file using git-rebase to remove the offending commit, now I just need to 
> rewrite the second commit's message so it looks like the original commit 
> (luckily I didn't do any work in the directory before I re-cased it). 
> Thanks anyway.

I was not talking about fixing it up in your repository. If you really think that git should help you, you gotta teach it to. Because people who do not experience the same as you will be less likely to feel the urge to teach git to help in that situation (because they did not experience that situation yet). For example, I am one of these people. And I guess a lot of these people hang out on this list.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 9 of 29 in “Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems”
  1. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  2. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  3. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  5. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  8. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  11. David KastrupJan 11, 2008
  12. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  13. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  14. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  16. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
  19. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  21. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  22. David KastrupJan 12, 2008
  23. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  25. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  26. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
  27. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008
  28. Linus TorvaldsJan 12, 2008
  29. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008

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