Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'

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PJ Weisberg <pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 2012/3/22 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek  <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Even this updated text does not say _what_ happens when
>>> core.ignorecase is set on a case-insensitive filesystem.
>>
>> That was very much on purpose. We tell users not to do that, because it is
>> calling for an undefined behaviour. And leaving it undefined gives us a
>> wiggle room to later do something better if we choose to.
>
> Where do you tell users not to do that?  Nothing on the man page
> actually says that the behavior is undefined,...

Read the messages in the thread you are responding to. It is a discussion
about how we update the documentation to say it.
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