Re: inconsistent behavior on mac with case changes
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I created a dir on my Mac called Rollup, and pushed it out. Then went to a CentOS box, pulled it, and realized I wanted to call it RollUp (capital U). I renamed it, and pushed out the change. Went back to the Mac and did a pull - it said it created the RollUp dir, but it did not - it was still called Rollup. I reamed it, but status did not pick up the change. Then I checked out a branch that had Rollup, but it was gone there - no Rollup or RollUp. I did a merge and then RollUp was created. I know the Mac is somewhat inconsistent with how it deals with case, e.g.: $ ls RollUp $ ls -d Rollup Rollup $ ls -d RollUp RollUp $ find . -name Rollup -print $ find . -name RollUp -print ./RollUp So I guess I can understand git also being inconsistent there. But what really got me was the dir being gone on the branch. Is all this expected behavior? Is this not the correct list for a question like this? If not, is there another list that's more appropriate? -- 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
Re: inconsistent behavior on mac with case changes
On 09/14/2012 02:37 PM, Larry Martell wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I created a dir on my Mac called Rollup, and pushed it out. Then went to a CentOS box, pulled it, and realized I wanted to call it RollUp (capital U). I renamed it, and pushed out the change. Went back to the Mac and did a pull - it said it created the RollUp dir, but it did not - it was still called Rollup. I reamed it, but status did not pick up the change. Then I checked out a branch that had Rollup, but it was gone there - no Rollup or RollUp. I did a merge and then RollUp was created. I know the Mac is somewhat inconsistent with how it deals with case, e.g.: $ ls RollUp $ ls -d Rollup Rollup $ ls -d RollUp RollUp $ find . -name Rollup -print $ find . -name RollUp -print ./RollUp So I guess I can understand git also being inconsistent there. But what really got me was the dir being gone on the branch. Is all this expected behavior? More or less. Git sees Rollup and RollUp as two different directories, so assuming everything inside it is committed git is free to remove the directory that exists on one branch but not the other when switching branches in order to keep the work tree in sync with the index. Consider this (most output cut away): git init touch base; git add base git commit -m first commit mkdir foo touch foo/lala git add foo/lala git commit -m meh git checkout -b newbranch HEAD^ ls -ld foo ls: cannot access foo.: No such file or directory mkdir bar touch bar/bear git add bar/bear git commit -m rawr git checkout master ls -ld bar ls: cannot access bar.: no such file or directory If git would leave your committed directory in the worktree when you move to a branch that doesn't have it, it would put you in a very weird position where you may have to clear away rubble from someone else, or start depending on code that's not in your branch. So yes, you're seeing the expected behaviour, and OSX is retarded wrt case sensitive filenames. I'd suggest you either reformat your drive to stop using HFS+ or do your development work inside a loopback fs mounted with proper case sensitivity, as there's really no sane way around the problem OSX causes. Is this not the correct list for a question like this? If not, is there another list that's more appropriate? It is, but people don't always spend their days looking for questions to answer. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- 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
Re: inconsistent behavior on mac with case changes
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 09/14/2012 02:37 PM, Larry Martell wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I created a dir on my Mac called Rollup, and pushed it out. Then went to a CentOS box, pulled it, and realized I wanted to call it RollUp (capital U). I renamed it, and pushed out the change. Went back to the Mac and did a pull - it said it created the RollUp dir, but it did not - it was still called Rollup. I reamed it, but status did not pick up the change. Then I checked out a branch that had Rollup, but it was gone there - no Rollup or RollUp. I did a merge and then RollUp was created. I know the Mac is somewhat inconsistent with how it deals with case, e.g.: $ ls RollUp $ ls -d Rollup Rollup $ ls -d RollUp RollUp $ find . -name Rollup -print $ find . -name RollUp -print ./RollUp So I guess I can understand git also being inconsistent there. But what really got me was the dir being gone on the branch. Is all this expected behavior? More or less. Git sees Rollup and RollUp as two different directories, so assuming everything inside it is committed git is free to remove the directory that exists on one branch but not the other when switching branches in order to keep the work tree in sync with the index. Consider this (most output cut away): git init touch base; git add base git commit -m first commit mkdir foo touch foo/lala git add foo/lala git commit -m meh git checkout -b newbranch HEAD^ ls -ld foo ls: cannot access foo.: No such file or directory mkdir bar touch bar/bear git add bar/bear git commit -m rawr git checkout master ls -ld bar ls: cannot access bar.: no such file or directory If git would leave your committed directory in the worktree when you move to a branch that doesn't have it, it would put you in a very weird position where you may have to clear away rubble from someone else, or start depending on code that's not in your branch. So yes, you're seeing the expected behaviour, and OSX is retarded wrt case sensitive filenames. I'd suggest you either reformat your drive to stop using HFS+ or do your development work inside a loopback fs mounted with proper case sensitivity, as there's really no sane way around the problem OSX causes. Thanks for the detailed reply! -- 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
