From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Niklas Höglund" <nhoglund@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git and file name case on cygwin
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:25:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmz3uzpc2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702031716130.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:17:36 -0800 (PST)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Niklas Höglund wrote:
>>
>> There's something funny going on with git in cygwin. The following is
>> in a clone of linux 2.6, with no local modifications (only the
>> occasional pull from upstream).
>
> You are using a filesystem that isn't able to handle the Linux kernel.
>
> Make sure you don't try to maintain kernel source trees on a filesystem
> that isn't case-sensitive. Here's a clue:
>
> include/linux/netfilter/xt_dscp.h
> include/linux/netfilter/xt_DSCP.h
>
> are both tracked files..
Are there plans to "fix" the confusion by renaming them to
reduce chances of name clashes on such suboptimal filesystems?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-04 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-03 22:00 git and file name case on cygwin Niklas Höglund
2007-02-04 1:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-04 1:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-02-04 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-04 1:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-04 13:59 ` Niklas Höglund
2007-02-04 14:17 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-02-04 14:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-04 15:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
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