On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If it is a new file, we won't find any name that is equivalent > to $A in the index, and we use the name $A obtained from > readdir(3). > > BUT with a twist. > > If the filesystem is known to be inconveniently case folding, we > are better off registering $B instead of $A (assuming we can > convert from $A to $B). Why? If you have no other representation for the file name than $A already, then I don't see why Git would have to play similar evil games and corru^H^H^Hnvert $A into $B. Just store $A in the index and tree objects and be done with it. Nicolas - 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
