On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:44:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I wanted it to tell *what* happens when core.ignorecase is set. In other > words, I wanted the description to say that the logic employed is to work > around what case-insensitive filesystems do. Case sensitive filesystems > obviously do not do what case-insensitive ones do (like reporting a > "Makefile" exists when only "makefile" exists), so I hoped that it was > clear enough that the additional logic would not be suitable there. Ah. I see now why you made the change you did. But if I missed it, perhaps it was too subtle (of course, I found the other one perfectly adequate, so...). > I guess we really need to make the description foolproof then. > > ... exists on them is "makefile". By setting this > variable to `true`, Git employs logic to work around them. > Setting this to `true` on a case insensitive filesystem does > not make any sense, because it would not magically make your > system to treat your filesystem case insensitively. I'm OK with that (modulo s/insensitive/sensitive/ on the third line). It may be overly explicit, but I would rather err on that side. -Peff -- 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