Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: report duplicate entries on case-insensitive filesystems

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:23 PM Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> I wonder if we can tell the users more about the "problems"
> and how to avoid them, or to live with them.
>
> This is more loud thinking:
>
> "The following paths only differ in case\n"
> "One a case-insensitive file system only one at a time can be present\n"
> "You may rename one like this:\n"
> "git checkout <file> && git mv <file> <file>.1\n"

Jeff gave a couple more options [1] to fix or workaround this. I think
the problem is there is no single recommended way to deal with it. If
there is, we can describe in this warning. But listing multiple
options in this warning may be too much (the wall of text could easily
take half a screen).

Or if people agree on _one_ suggestion, I will gladly put it in.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/CACsJy8A_uZM7nUmyERNHJMya0EyRQYTV7Dp2ikLznxnbOQU6tw@mail.gmail.com/T/#m60fedd7dc928a4d52eb5919811f84556f391a7b3

> > +                             fprintf(stderr, "\t%s\n", dup.items[i].string);
>
> Another question:
> Do we need any quote_path() here ?
> (This may be overkill, since typically the repos with conflicting names
> only use ASCII.)

Would be good to show trailing spaces in path names, so yes.
-- 
Duy