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From: Yves Goergen <nospam.list@unclassified•de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: "Holger Hellmuth" <hellmuth@ira•uka.de>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego•de>
Subject: Re: Bug? Git checkout fails with a wrong error message
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:41:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F152639.9010505@unclassified.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120116212709.GA21770@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 16.01.2012 22:27 CE(S)T, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:20:42PM +0100, Yves Goergen wrote:
> 
>> On 16.01.2012 20:09 CE(S)T, Jeff King wrote:
>>> What is the output of "git config core.ignorecase" in your repository?
>> None, i.e. an empty line.
> 
> That's odd. When the repository is first created, git will do a test to
> see whether the filesystem supports case-sensitivity, and will set
> core.ignorecase if it does not. Might this repository have been created
> on a different filesystem, and then moved onto the case-insensitive
> filesystem?
> 
> Or might it have been created by something other than core git? I don't
> know whether one can create a repo in TortoiseGit, or if so how it does
> so.

It may have been created through the Visual Studio source provider for
Git, which is configured to use TortoiseGit which in turn uses msysGit.
But I have not written any of those programmes so I cannot guarantee for
what they do.

> In any case, try doing:
> 
>   git config core.ignorecase true
> 
> and see if that clears up your problems.

'git config core.ignorecase' now outputs "true" but I can still commit
the same file (modified) twice. So this doesn't help.

Meanwhile I have browsed my other code projects and found that the
designer-generated file name is sometimes with a "D" and sometimes with
a "d", so it's usually inconsistent. I haven't figured out where that
comes from but it means that this is a common issue that Git needs to
handle well to be usable on Windows. But we're not there yet.

-- 
Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.list@unclassified•de>
Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 18:44 Bug? Git checkout fails with a wrong error message Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 12:50 ` Holger Hellmuth
2012-01-13 17:46   ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 19:28     ` Holger Hellmuth
2012-01-15  8:14       ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-16 11:07         ` Holger Hellmuth
2012-01-16 18:50           ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-16 19:09             ` Jeff King
2012-01-16 21:20               ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-16 21:27                 ` Jeff King
2012-01-17  7:41                   ` Yves Goergen [this message]
2012-01-16 19:17             ` Thomas Rast
     [not found]               ` <4F152767.9010104@unclassified.de>
2012-01-17  8:45                 ` Thomas Rast
2012-01-17 17:56                   ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-19 10:24                     ` Thomas Rast
2012-01-16 21:18             ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-01-16 18:58           ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 17:37 ` Bug! Git merge also " Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 17:50   ` Jeff King
2012-01-13 18:49     ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 18:54       ` Jeff King
2012-01-13 19:05         ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 17:56   ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-01-13 18:59     ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 19:34       ` Jakub Narebski
2012-01-15  8:17         ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-15 10:08           ` Jakub Narebski

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