Hi, [culled make-w32 list by explicit request] On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > On Oct 16, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:45:02 -0400 (EDT) > > > > From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>, Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx, > > > > ae@xxxxxx, tsuna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > > > > make-w32@xxxxxxx > > > > > > > > I believe the hassle is that readdir doesn't necessarily report a > > > > README in a directory which is supposed to have a README, when it > > > > has a readme instead. > > > Sorry I'm asking potentially stupid questions out of ignorance: why > > > would you want readdir to return `README' when you have `readme'? > > > > Because it might have been checked in as README, and since git is case > > sensitive that is what it'll think should be there when it reads the > > directories. If it's not, users get to see > > > > removed: README > > untracked: readme > > > > and there's really no easy way out of this one, since users on a case- > > sensitive filesystem might be involved in this project too, so it > > could be an intentional rename, but we don't know for sure. Just > > clobbering the in-git file is wrong, but overwriting a file on disk is > > wrong too. git tries hard to not ever lose any data for the user. > > Maybe we need a configuration similar to core.autocrlf (which controls > newline conversion) to control filename comparison and normalization? > > Most obviously for the case (in-)sensitivity on Windows, but I also > remember the unicode normalization happening on Mac's HFS filesystem > that caused trouble in the past. Robin Rosenberg has some preliminary code for that. The idea is to wrap all filesystem operations in cache.h, and do a filename normalisation first. Ciao, Dscho - 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
