On 25 Aug 2015, at 13:57, Luke Diamand <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/08/15 11:30, larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Unfortunately the command line option is not sufficient as the resulting paths are still messed up. I added the switch but it looks like as core.ignorecase does some additional magic on fast-import. You can see my changes here: >> https://github.com/larsxschneider/git/commit/b4399179ff542161c2c5b83c34c5b4901287ceb0 >> >> You can also run the unit tests to see the results here: >> https://github.com/larsxschneider/git/tree/lars/fix-path-v5-with-command-switch >> >> The only way I could image to fix that is to request every path from P4 as shown in my PATCH v4. This would be slow and the change would be rather huge. > > Yes, you're right - fast-import has special handling based on core.ignorecase. > > There was a thread a while back saying that it shouldn't do this, and > instead should have a new --casefold option, which would make more > sense, but isn't the case at present. > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg243264.html > >> I am curious: >> I run all my P4 -> git migrations on a Linux box with EXT4 and core.ignorecase=True. I did not realize that this might cause trouble. What could happen and what should I look out for? > > An obvious way it could go wrong would be if you had a a repo that > _did_ care about case (e.g. had Makefile and makefile in the same > directory) and you then tried to git-p4 clone a separate repo into a > different branch. In an ideal world, you would only use the > case-folding on the git-p4 based repo. I think while fast-import just > checks core.ignorecase, that's not possible. OK. Thanks for the explanation. > > So the choices are: > > 1. A new command-line option which would silently set core.ignorecase > 2. Users just have to know to set core.ignorecase manually before > using git-p4 (i.e. Lars' patch v5) > 3. Fix fast-import to take a --casefold option (but that's a much bigger change) > I vote for 2 because that solves the problem consistently with the existing implementation for now. That means we don’t surprise git-p4 users. In addition I would try to fix (3), the —casefold option, in a separate patch. Although this (3) patch could take a bit as I have two more git-p4 patches in the queue that I want to propose to the mailing list first. - Lars-- 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