On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 02:40:02AM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> Nice detective work. This particular manifestation is caught by the
> following test which fails without brian's patch on MacOS (and
> presumably Windows) and succeeds with it. On Linux and BSD, it will of
> course succeed always, so I'm not sure how much practical value it
> has.
> 
> --- >8 ---
> hex2oct() {
>       perl -ne 'printf "\\%03o", hex for /../g'
> }
> 
> test_expect_success 'clone on case-insensitive fs' '
>       o=$(git hash-object -w --stdin </dev/null | hex2oct) &&
>       t=$(printf "100644 X\0${o}100644 x\0${o}" |
>                  git hash-object -w -t tree --stdin) &&
>       c=$(git commit-tree -m bogus $t) &&
>       git update-ref refs/heads/bogus $c &&
>       git clone -b bogus . bogus
> '
> --- >8 ---

I'd argue that it's a worthwhile test to have, since it will fail on
those systems where it's going to be a problem.  Furthermore, people do
run the tests (as does Travis) on case-insensitive file systems during
the development cycle, so if we break something in the future, someone
will notice while we're still in the development cycle.
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