Subject: Re: Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case

From: [email-masked] (Claus Färber)
Date: 12 Feb 2010 19:19:00 +0100

David Hagood <[email-masked]> schrieb/wrote:
> If you have 2 entities in a directory which have names differing only
> in case, e.g. "foo" and "FOO", under a REAL operating system with case
> sensitive file system semantics, this is no problem. However, under
> Windows and their wonderful "Case preserving but case insensitive"
> semantics, "FOO" and "foo" would be the same file,...

Mac OS X has the same problem.

Further, it does not preserve the Unicode normalisation form.

Claus