On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:12:11AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > As you now know, I'm working on a mercurial remote helper for git. As > such, it uses fast-import. > > In the mercurial history of mozilla-central, there have been various > renames of files with only case changes, and it so happens that my > remote helper blows things up on case insensitive file systems. The > reason is git clone probing the file system and setting core.ignorecase > appropriately. > > While it makes sense for checkouts and local commits, it doesn't make > sense to me that using git fast-import with the same import script would > have a different behavior depending on whether the file system is > case-sensitive or not.
Heh, I just found this thread: http://marc.info/?t=139134708700001&r=1&w=2 It doesn't seem to have led to something actually being committed, though. Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
