So apparently when core.ignorecase=true, this really means casepreserving=false, casesensitive=true. Yet when core.ignorecase=false it actually means casepreserving=true, casesensitive=true. That's what I infer from the git-config documentation. Would you agree? On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dienstag, 17. August 2010, Robert Buck wrote: >> While I tend to agree with case-insensitive searches, I would tend to >> question the use of a non-case-preserving / last-use methodology >> reminiscent of the days of DOS. > > There is no "last-use" involved. Everything's rather "first-use", i.e., > case-preserving. > >> The nice thing about case-insensitivity is that when requesting a file >> by name any capitalization can be used. The bad thing, well come to >> think of it, there is none that I can think of, but for those more >> religious than I about Unix they may cite otherwise. > > What do you mean by "requesting a file"? > > core.ignorecase is purely about the worktree and the transition of files from > the worktree to the index. It is *not* involved when files are moved from the > index or the repository to the worktree. In particular, it is not used when > you give a pathspec to limit 'git log' results. (Joshua proposed a change > where core.ignorecase would also kick in in this case as well, but this > change is not included in this series, and I would not agree to it.) So what I am hearing is that unless one sets core.ignorecase, in mixed environments you are in for a world of hurt; you'd end up with Foo and foo from the Unix side of the house, and on Macs or Windows the last file materialized from the index or repository into the working directory would clobber the first one materialized, potentially introducing relatively quiescent bugs that could make their way into production environments. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html