Re: Windows support

Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:41:22 +0200

   * Be careful with the case in filenames. Similarly, avoid
special chars in filenames.

This is true. Git doesn't like getting file names with case only 
differences on such a platform. E.g. just today I wanted to do the
following:

  git mv foo.c Foo.c

but had to instead do:

  git mv foo.c CRAP && git mv CRAP Foo.c

because the former won't work on a filesystem that ignores case. I
have the same problem on my Mac OS X HFS+ volume as it also ignores
case.

You can turn off case-insensitivity in the Windows kernel, by
using RegEdit, and setting the following registry key to 0:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\obcaseinsensitive

I haven't tried it, but it should help your case above. Just keep
in mind that you can then check in files which your coworkers can't
checkout :-)

--
.marius

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