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From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand•org>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>,
	"Git Users" <git@vger•kernel.org>, "Pete Wyckoff" <pw@padd•com>,
	"Tor Arvid Lund" <torarvid@gmail•com>,
	ksaitoh560@gmail•com, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] git-p4: Obey core.ignorecase when using P4 client specs.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:24:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DCB2E0.5090605@diamand.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B7632D9A-BB8B-41E5-9C3D-F7376A0C81D3@gmail.com>

On 25/08/15 14:14, Lars Schneider wrote:
>>
>> So the choices are:
>>
>> 1. A new command-line option which would silently set core.ignorecase
>> 2. Users just have to know to set core.ignorecase manually before
>> using git-p4 (i.e. Lars' patch v5)
>> 3. Fix fast-import to take a --casefold option (but that's a much bigger change)
>>
> I vote for 2 because that solves the problem consistently with the existing implementation for now. That means we don’t surprise git-p4 users. In addition I would try to fix (3), the —casefold option, in a separate patch. Although this (3) patch could take a bit as I have two more git-p4 patches in the queue that I want to propose to the mailing list first.

That works for me. Ack.

Thanks!
Luke

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-25 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-24 21:30 [PATCH v5] git-p4: Obey core.ignorecase when using P4 client specs larsxschneider
2015-08-24 21:30 ` larsxschneider
2015-08-25  6:54 ` Luke Diamand
2015-08-25  8:17   ` Lars Schneider
2015-08-25  8:33   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-08-25 10:30     ` Lars Schneider
2015-08-25 11:57       ` Luke Diamand
2015-08-25 13:14         ` Lars Schneider
2015-08-25 18:24           ` Luke Diamand [this message]
2015-08-26 10:18             ` Luke Diamand

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