As you've probably deduced, I simply failed to RTFM. I'm not sure
you'll gain much by changing the description on the man page, since I
thought the name 'ignorecase' was self-explanatory and barely even
looked at it. :-/
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> underlying system calls like open("foo") will *not* magically start
> returning a file descriptor opened for "FOO" if your filesystem is not
> case insensitive.
No, but magic_open("foo") might, if someone had put forth the effort
to write a function called magic_open. But the more I think about it,
the more it seems that doing everything you would need to do to make
ignorecase work the way I thought it did is almost certainly not worth
the effort.
-PJ
Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced.
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