Am 4/11/2011 18:55, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Yeah, I forgot about the primary thing we are trying to do in this
> discussion. Sorry about that. My thinking stopped at 'if we rename "A"
> to "a in the index, that is sufficient. We already know that we can still
> open("A") because the filesystem is case insensitive.'
>
> In fact, we want both the index entry "A" renamed to "a" _and_ also we
> want to see next "/bin/ls" to show "a", not "A". For the latter, we do
> want to run rename(2) on them.
I wonder why we need this at all. You can always break this into two
operations:
git mv A a1
git mv a1 a
Is 'git mv A a' on a case-insensitive filesystem such an every-day
operation that we have to provide special support for it in git?
-- Hannes
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