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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Mike Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	gitgitgadget@gmail.com, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] worktree refs: fix case sensitivity for 'head'
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:33:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181214003350.GS890086@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANoM8SWQTAEYGiUC9PnWi8u9oAJYPcyiE5+5usoRvR7Vw2z0JA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 04:14:28PM -0500, Mike Rappazzo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:48 PM Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > The current situation is definitely a problem.  If I am in a worktree,
> > > > using "head" should be the same as "HEAD".
> >
> > By any chance, is your file system case insensitive?
> > That is usually the source of confusion for these discussions.
> 
> This behavior is the same for MacOS (High Sierra) and Windows 7.  I
> assume other derivatives of those act the same.
> 
> On CentOS "head" is an ambiguous ref.  If Windows and Mac resulted in
> an ambiguous ref, that would also be OK, but as it is now, they return
> the result of "HEAD" on the primary worktree.

I'm pretty sure that we want HEAD to be only written as "HEAD". It's
known that systems with case-insensitive file systems sometimes allow
"head" instead of "HEAD" because the ref is written in the file system.

I think the improvement we'd want here is to reject HEAD being written
as "head" on those systems, but in a global way that affects all uses of
HEAD.
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-14  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-13 19:54 [PATCH 0/1] worktree refs: fix case sensitivity for 'head' Michael Rappazzo via GitGitGadget
2018-12-13 19:54 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Michael Rappazzo via GitGitGadget
2018-12-13 20:23   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-13 20:34     ` Mike Rappazzo
2018-12-13 20:43       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-13 20:47         ` Stefan Beller
2018-12-13 21:14           ` Mike Rappazzo
2018-12-14  0:33             ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2018-12-14  6:49             ` Jacob Keller
2018-12-14  7:37               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-14 17:22                 ` Jacob Keller
2018-12-14 17:38                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-14 17:46                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-14 18:48                       ` Jacob Keller
2018-12-14 18:47                     ` Jacob Keller
2018-12-13 21:07         ` Mike Rappazzo
2018-12-14  3:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-14 10:36 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Johannes Schindelin

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