PJ Weisberg <pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
Exactly.
That is why we avoid describing what happens when you set it on a case
sensitive filesystem, to leave the door open for such a cleverness.
It may still be a mistake in the manual that we did not explicitly say
that setting core.ignorecase on a case sensitive system will give you an
undefined behaviour.
--
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