From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:25:11 GMT Subject: Re: Git an case-insensitive Mac OS X filesystem Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Erik Faye-Lund 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 :-( ) -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/