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From: dooagain <dooagain@protonmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: git pull output and case sensitivity.
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:01:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <_XGWc87b9HPBCDZ95pSmwNOFcZO21Y6bVyNnhhNuowPcM2Fhs5HmCynAqq2nME257bMhQ4w7Qta1dICTCHTlxbQ2NHN_iPYO0NkBYmS9vTI=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230320171602.GB2615782@coredump.intra.peff.net>

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but I documented a simple way to recreate the issue I am seeing in the README in the https://github.com/spencerdcarlson/test-casing repository.

------- Original Message -------
On Monday, March 20th, 2023 at 11:16 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:


> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 07:22:40AM +0100, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 07:21:10PM +0000, dooagain wrote:
> > 
> > > Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
> > > Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
> > > 
> > > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> > > 
> > > I configured my git repository to ignore case by executing `git config core.ignorecase true` then I executed `git pull` multiple times.
> > 
> > What do you mean by "I configured my git repository" ?
> > The answer is already there, so let's re-rephrase it:
> > Are you working on a case-insensitive file system ?
> > 
> > What happens if you create a test directory, like this:
> > mkdir test-case
> > cd test-case
> > git init
> > git config --get core.ignorecase
> 
> 
> I think this is kind of a red herring, isn't it? The bug report is about
> refs, and I don't think those really respect core.ignorecase either way,
> and inconsistencies are known to happen on case-insensitive filesystems
> (because the refs are sometimes case-sensitive and sometimes not
> depending on whether they are packed or loose in the filesystem).
> 
> So I think this is just a known gotcha, and the path forward is probably
> a new ref storage format that doesn't rely on storing names directly in
> the filesystem (reftable, or some system based on packed-ref slices).
> 
> -Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-20 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-18 19:21 Bug: git pull output and case sensitivity dooagain
2023-03-19  6:22 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2023-03-20 17:16   ` Jeff King
2023-03-20 18:01     ` dooagain [this message]
2023-03-20 19:12       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2023-03-22 17:44         ` dooagain
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-18 19:23 dooagain

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