Re: Branch Name Case Sensitivity

> Last week I ran across a potential bug with branch names on case
> insensitive file systems, the complete scenario can be found here:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/ugKL-sVMiqI
>
> The tldr is because refs are stored as plain text files except when
> packed into packed-refs, Git occasionally cannot tell the difference
> between branches whose names only differ in case, and this could
> potentially lead to the loss of history.
>
> It sounds like this is a known issue, and after some more digging I
> did find some older threads related to this topic, but nothing recent.