Re: file name case-sensitivity issues

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On Tue, 23 May 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
> Very simple to reproduce on FAT and NTFS, and under Windows, as usual,
> when a problem is especially annoying. I seem to have no chance to
> get my hands on this myself, so I at least let everyone know about the
> problem.

I don't think we can fix it.

At least not in the short term.

The closest I can imagine is to add a config option like "core.lowercase", 
and that would make us always add files to the index in lower case. That, 
together with making sure that "setup_pathspec()" &co always also 
lower-case their arguments might get things limping along with minimal 
trouble.

But it won't ever do things _well_. Anything non-ascii would be just a 
nightmare.

		Linus
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