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Re: Git an case-insensitive Mac OS X filesystem

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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Sep 11, 2012, 11:25 UTC
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, but being costly in terms of performance is IMO a lot better than
> corrupting refs, which is what we currently do.

I'm not saying nothing should be done, but I'm not sure packed-refs are the right solution in the long term. We already have the foo Vs foo/bar issue (discussed in the "keeping reflog for deleted refs" discussion). I think the right way would be to re-think the way we map ref name to the filesystem, with proper escaping of capitals, slashes, ...

But that's a rather big change to do (and I'm unlikely to be the one volunteering for it :-( )

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Matthieu Moy
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  1. Roger Pau MonnéSep 11, 2012
  2. Erik Faye-LundSep 11, 2012
  3. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2012
  4. Erik Faye-LundSep 11, 2012
  5. Matthieu MoySep 11, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2012
  7. Roger Pau MonnéSep 11, 2012
  8. Tomas CarneckySep 11, 2012
  9. Roger Pau MonnéSep 11, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2012

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