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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Paweł Paruzel" <pawelparuzel95@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git clone and case sensitivity
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:56:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180728095659.GA21450@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180728051105.GA32243@duynguyen.home>

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 07:11:05AM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> > It might be enough to just issue a warning and give an advise() hint
> > that tells the user what's going on. Then they can decide what to do
> > (hide both paths, or just work in the index, or move to a different fs,
> > or complain to upstream).
> 
> Yeah that may be the best option. Something like this perhaps? Not
> sure how much detail the advice should be here.

Yeah, something along these lines.  I agree with Simon's comment
elsewhere that this should probably mention the names. I don't know if
we'd want to offer advice pointing them to using the sparse feature to
work around it.

> +static int has_duplicate_icase_entries(struct index_state *istate)
> +{
> +	struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
> +	int i;
> +	int found = 0;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < istate->cache_nr; i++)
> +		string_list_append(&list, istate->cache[i]->name);
> +
> +	list.cmp = strcasecmp;
> +	string_list_sort(&list);
> +
> +	for (i = 1; i < list.nr; i++) {
> +		if (strcasecmp(list.items[i-1].string,
> +			       list.items[i].string))
> +			continue;
> +		found = 1;
> +		break;
> +	}
> +	string_list_clear(&list, 0);
> +
> +	return found;
> +}

strcasecmp() will only catch a subset of the cases. We really need to
follow the same folding rules that the filesystem would.

For the case of clone, I actually wonder if we could detect during the
checkout step that a file already exists. Since we know that the
directory we started with was empty, then if it does, either:

  - there's some funny case-folding going on that means two paths in the
    repository map to the same name in the filesystem; or

  - somebody else is writing to the directory at the same time as us

Either of which I think would be worth warning about. I'm not sure if we
already lstat() the paths we're writing anyway as part of the checkout,
so we might even get the feature "for free".

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-28  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-27  9:59 Git clone and case sensitivity Paweł Paruzel
2018-07-27 20:59 ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-28  4:36   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-28  4:45     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-28  4:48       ` Jeff King
2018-07-28  5:11         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-28  9:48           ` Simon Ruderich
2018-07-28  9:56           ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-07-28 18:05             ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-29  5:26             ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-29  9:28               ` Jeff King
2018-07-30 15:27                 ` [PATCH/RFC] clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-07-31 18:23                   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-08-01 15:25                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-31 18:44                   ` Elijah Newren
2018-07-31 19:12                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-31 19:29                       ` Jeff King
2018-07-31 20:12                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-31 20:37                           ` Jeff King
2018-07-31 20:57                             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 21:20                               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 14:43                                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-02 16:27                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 19:06                                     ` Jeff King
2018-08-02 21:14                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 21:28                                         ` Jeff King
2018-08-03 18:23                                           ` Jeff Hostetler
2018-08-03 18:49                                             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03 18:53                                             ` Jeff King
2018-08-05 14:01                                               ` Jeff Hostetler
2018-08-03 14:28                                   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-08-01 15:21                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-31 19:13                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 15:16                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-07 19:01                   ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-08-07 19:31                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-08 19:48                       ` Jeff Hostetler
2018-08-08 22:31                         ` Jeff King
2018-08-09  0:41                           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-09 14:23                             ` Jeff King
2018-08-09 21:14                               ` Jeff Hostetler
2018-08-09 21:34                                 ` Jeff King
2018-08-09 21:40                                 ` Elijah Newren
2018-08-09 21:44                                   ` Jeff King
2018-08-09 21:53                                     ` Elijah Newren
2018-08-09 21:59                                       ` Jeff King
2018-08-09 23:05                                         ` Elijah Newren
2018-08-09 22:07                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-10 15:36                     ` [PATCH v3 0/1] clone: warn on colidding entries on checkout Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-08-10 15:36                       ` [PATCH v3 1/1] clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-08-10 16:42                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-11 10:09                         ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-08-11 13:16                           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-13 16:55                             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-13 17:12                               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-10 16:12                       ` [PATCH v3 0/1] clone: warn on colidding entries on checkout Junio C Hamano
2018-08-12  9:07                       ` [PATCH v4] clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-08-13 15:32                         ` Jeff Hostetler
2018-08-13 17:18                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-15 19:08                         ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-08-15 19:35                           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-16 15:56                             ` [PATCH] config.txt: clarify core.checkStat = minimal Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-08-16 17:01                               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-16 18:19                                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-16 22:29                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-17 15:26                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-17 15:29                                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-15 19:38                           ` [PATCH v4] clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems Junio C Hamano
2018-08-16 14:03                             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-08-16 15:42                               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-16 16:23                               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-17 16:16                         ` [PATCH v5] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-08-17 17:20                           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-17 18:00                             ` Duy Nguyen
2018-08-17 19:46                           ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-19  8:20                           ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2018-11-19 12:28                             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-19 17:14                               ` Carlo Arenas
2018-11-19 18:24                                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-19 21:03                                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-19 21:04                                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-19 21:17                                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-19 23:29                                     ` Ramsay Jones
2018-11-19 23:54                                       ` Ramsay Jones
2018-11-20  1:05                                         ` Carlo Arenas
2018-11-20  2:22                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-20 16:28                                       ` [PATCH] clone: fix colliding file detection on APFS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-20 19:20                                         ` Ramsay Jones
2018-11-20 19:35                                         ` Carlo Arenas
2018-11-20 19:38                                           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-22 17:59                                         ` [PATCH v1 1/1] t5601-99: Enable colliding file detection for MINGW tboegi
2018-11-22 20:16                                           ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2018-11-23 11:24                                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-19 17:21                               ` [PATCH v5] clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems Ramsay Jones
2018-11-19 19:39                                 ` Carlo Arenas
2018-07-31 19:39                 ` Git clone and case sensitivity Jeff Hostetler

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