Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 6/8] Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files

From: Joshua Jensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:49:28 -0600

----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Rosenberg
Date: 10/4/2010 10:02 AM
> söndagen den 3 oktober 2010 11.56.44 skrev  Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
>> From: Joshua Jensen<[email-masked]>
>>
>> When mydir/filea.txt is added, mydir/ is renamed to MyDir/, and
>> MyDir/fileb.txt is added, running git ls-files mydir only shows
>> mydir/filea.txt. Running git ls-files MyDir shows MyDir/fileb.txt.
>> Running git ls-files mYdIR shows nothing.
>>
>> With this patch running git ls-files for mydir, MyDir, and mYdIR shows
>> mydir/filea.txt and MyDir/fileb.txt.
>> ---
>>   dir.c |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>   1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
>> index cf8f65c..53aa4f3 100644
>> --- a/dir.c
>> +++ b/dir.c
>> @@ -107,16 +107,30 @@ static int match_one(const char *match, const char
>> +	if (ignore_case) {
>> +		for (;;) {
>> +			unsigned char c1 = tolower(*match);
>> +			unsigned char c2 = tolower(*name);
> Is anyone thinking "unicode" around here?
On Windows, Unicode filenames are 16-bit wide characters.  The current 
code doesn't handle them at all.

I do not know about other file systems and what Git actually handles.  I 
was under the impression it didn't handle Unicode filenames well in 
general... ?

Josh