It is completely legitimate these days to call git add with absolute paths. Of course, on a case-insensitive file system, users rightfully expect the argument to be handled case-insensitively, too. This patch makes it so. Git for Windows carried this patch for over one and a half years already, I think it is time to get it into git.git. Change since v1: * Replaced MINGW prerequisite in the test by CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS. Johannes Schindelin (1): abspath_part_inside_repo: respect core.fileMode setup.c | 6 +++--- t/t3700-add.sh | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) base-commit: b21ebb671bb7dea8d342225f0d66c41f4e54d5ca Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-104%2Fdscho%2Fcase-insensitive-abspath-v2 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-104/dscho/case-insensitive-abspath-v2 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/104 Range-diff vs v1: 1: 4fb5de504e = 1: 3eaec10c46 abspath_part_inside_repo: respect core.fileMode -- gitgitgadget