From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: Mark Amery <markrobertamery@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: Changing folder case with `git mv` crashes on case-insensitive file system
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 09:23:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtuni58ra.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210504151954.aczbvml4rh7t2svc@tb-raspi4> ("Torsten =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen=22's?= message of "Tue, 4 May 2021 17:19:54 +0200")
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
> To my undestanding we try to rename
> foo/ into FOO/.
> But because FOO/ already "exists" as directory,
> Git tries to move foo/ into FOO/foo, which fails.
>
> And no, the problem is probably not restricted to MacOs,
> Windows and all case-insenstive file systems should show
> the same, but I haven't tested yet, so it's more a suspicion.
>
> The following diff allows to move foo/ into FOO/
> If someone wants to make a patch out if, that would be good.
Is strcasecmp() sufficient for macOS whose filesystem has not just
case insensitivity but UTF-8 normalization issues?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-05 0:23 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
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 [this message]
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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