Re: Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case

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On 12 Feb 2010 19:19:00 +0100, gmane2010@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Claus Färber)
wrote:
> David Hagood <david.hagood@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb/wrote:
>> If you have 2 entities in a directory which have names differing only
>> in case, e.g. "foo" and "FOO", under a REAL operating system with case
>> sensitive file system semantics, this is no problem. However, under
>> Windows and their wonderful "Case preserving but case insensitive"
>> semantics, "FOO" and "foo" would be the same file,...
> 
> Mac OS X has the same problem.

Only by default.  You can choose to use a case sensitive filesystem if you
wish.

> Further, it does not preserve the Unicode normalisation form.

Unfortunately you can't choose to turn this off. :(

-- 
Julian
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