Subject: Re: linux-2.6 clone with CygWin git

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:50:23 +0100

Pascal Obry wrote:
> David Brown a écrit :
>> It's because of the case-insensitive nature of the filesystem.  The kernel
>> contains both an xt_connmark.h and an xt_CONNMARK.h file, that are
>> different.  But only one exists on Windows, so git sees the first one it
>> wrote as having been modified.
> 
> Probably not something for the list... but if you ask me this is just
> bad practice anyway. Casing has no semantic, it is nonsense to have two
> files with the same name with different casing!
> 

You're right, it's not something for this list. Try arguing your case at
the linux kernel mailing list.

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