Using Git with windows

John Dlugosz· Mar 6, 2009, 19:10 UTC · lore

I can think of two differences: Line endings have been mentioned already. But, and I was wondering this already anyway, does the Windows git know that the file system is case insensitive but case preserving? That is, does it just ignore the issue, is there logic to cope with that better? If so, that would be missing if you ran it in the Linux VM. (Unless it checks the file system capabilities rather than the OS it is running under)

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Johannes Schindelin· Mar 7, 2009, 02:50 UTC · re: John Dlugosz · lore

Re: Using Git with windows

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, John Dlugosz wrote:

> I can think of two differences:  Line endings have been mentioned already.

And I have addressed that already, did I not?

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> But, and I was wondering this already anyway, does the Windows git know 
> that the file system is case insensitive but case preserving? That is, 
> does it just ignore the issue, is there logic to cope with that better? 
> If so, that would be missing if you ran it in the Linux VM. (Unless it 
> checks the file system capabilities rather than the OS it is running 
> under)

AFAIR Git recognizes case-insensitive file systems as such.

Hth, Dscho