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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Mark Amery <markrobertamery@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Bug: Changing folder case with `git mv` crashes on case-insensitive file system
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 11:20:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJEuBqVVa/7x+jrZ@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfsz36u0r.fsf@gitster.g>

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On 2021-05-04 at 03:46:12, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, this is because your operating system returns EINVAL in this case.
> > POSIX specifies EINVAL when you're trying to make a directory a
> > subdirectory of itself.  Which, I mean, I guess is a valid
> > interpretation here, but it of course makes renaming the path needlessly
> > difficult.
> > ...
> > I suspect part of the problem here is two fold: on macOS we can't
> > distinguish an attempt to rename the path due to it folding or
> > canonicalizing to the same thing from a real attempt to move an actual
> > directory into itself.  The latter would be a problem we'd want to
> > report, and the former is not.  Unfortunately, detecting this is
> > difficult because that means we'd have to implement the macOS
> > canonicalization algorithm in Git and we don't want to do that.
> 
> I agree we'd probably need to resort to macOS specific hack (like we
> have NFS or Coda specific hacks), but it may not be too bad.
> 
> After seeing EINVAL, we can lstat src 'foo' and dst 'FOO', and
> realize that both are directories and have the same st_dev/st_ino,
> which should be fairly straightforward, no?
> 
> For that, we do not exactly have to depend on any part of macOS-ism;
> we do depend on the traditional "within the same device, inum is a
> good way to tell if two filesystem entities are the same".

Yes, although that won't work on Windows, which I don't believe has the
concept of inodes and almost certainly has the same problem.  CCing
Dscho in case he has some ideas on how we can make this more resilient
there.

In any event, I'm not planning on writing a patch for this since I have
no way to test it, but I'm sure someone who uses macOS could probably
write one reasonably easily.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-03 17:25 Bug: Changing folder case with `git mv` crashes on case-insensitive file system Mark Amery
2021-05-03 22:58 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-04  3:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 11:20     ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2021-05-05 13:51       ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-05-06  0:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 15:19 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-05-05  0:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05  2:12     ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-06  4:34     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-05-06  9:12       ` Mark Amery
2021-05-06 13:11         ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-06 14:53         ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-05-06 21:03         ` Junio C Hamano

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