Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows)

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Hi,

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Petr Baudis wrote:

> Well, naively speaking (I have no idea how case _in_sensitivity is
> actually implemented in Git, and I don't even have any sane way how to
> test it :), what would happen if you just rename 'foo' to 'Foo' _only_
> in the index?

Then git status would report the file as deleted, and the original file as 
untracked, since those filesystems are actually only _half_ case 
insensitive, as Florian wrote: they _report_ the case, but they pretend 
that different cases refer to the _same_ file nevertheless.

Ciao,
Dscho


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