On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Philip Oakley <[email protected]> wrote: > On the Git User's list, Diego J. reported that: > > 'When I "checkout" a branch using different Upper Case/Lower Case than the > original, the branch doesn't show in "git branch [--list]"' [1] > > While case sensitivity for filenames is a common issue on Windows and the > like, I haven't seen any discussion regarding ref name sensitivity - any > pointers to past discussions?
Multiple ref backend [1] should solve this.It's supposed to help handle a huge number refs. But a side effect from not using file system for refs is we can handle ref case-sensitivity much easier. And I believe David had that in mind he chose lmdb (because of Mac, which shares the same problem with Windows) [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/281925 -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
