Re: Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic?

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:46, Michael J Gruber
<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The journalling is no problem, but HFS is. I'm no Macxpert but if I
> remember correctly, then under HFS "readme" and "README" are the same
> file, i.e. HFS only remembers how you want it spelled. People will
> correct me where I'm wrong.

FWIW this is called "case preserving". Where the filesystem is
case-insensitive so that you can't create both "foo" and "FOO", but it
still remembers if you did "touch Foo", "touch FoO" or whatever.

It affects more filesystems than just HFS.
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