Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Mar 23, 2008, 12:39 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0803231334210.11994@cougar>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x0992hy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * lt/case-insensitive (Sat Mar 22 14:22:44 2008 -0700) 9 commits
>  - Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive
>    environment
>  - When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent
>    matches
>  - Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files
>  - Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive
>    filsystems
>  - Add 'core.ignorecase' option
>  - Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups
>  - Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found
>  - Move name hashing functions into a file of its own
>  - Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
> 
> The beginning of ASCII-only case insensitive filesystem support.  It is
> not complete yet, though.  E.g. if you enable core.ignorecase in t0050,
> the merge test fails.

The merge test passes for me (on hfs+). The "git mv" test still fails; Linus made clear that "git mv" is not yet fixed.

            Steffen