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From: Florian Weimer
Subject: Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows)
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 4:02 am

* Andreas Ericsson:


Except that those file systems are case-insensitive, but
case-preserving.  This means that "mv foo Foo" makes sense, and some
tools actually support this operation (if "mv" doesn't, it's a shame).

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Florian Weimer                <fweimer@bfk.de>
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git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesy ..., Reece Dunn, (Tue Aug 28, 1:17 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 28, 2:09 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Andreas Ericsson, (Tue Aug 28, 2:39 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Reece Dunn, (Tue Aug 28, 3:17 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 28, 3:43 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Petr Baudis, (Tue Aug 28, 3:52 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Florian Weimer, (Tue Aug 28, 4:02 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Andreas Ericsson, (Tue Aug 28, 4:03 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Andreas Ericsson, (Tue Aug 28, 4:07 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 28, 4:12 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Andreas Ericsson, (Tue Aug 28, 4:12 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Reece Dunn, (Tue Aug 28, 5:56 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Wincent Colaiuta, (Tue Aug 28, 6:07 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Andreas Ericsson, (Tue Aug 28, 7:07 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Wincent Colaiuta, (Tue Aug 28, 7:31 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 28, 1:45 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., David Kastrup, (Tue Aug 28, 2:46 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Andreas Ericsson, (Tue Aug 28, 3:21 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 28, 3:32 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., David Kastrup, (Tue Aug 28, 3:44 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 28, 4:01 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Wincent Colaiuta, (Tue Aug 28, 7:12 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 28, 7:23 pm)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Wincent Colaiuta, (Wed Aug 29, 2:31 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Andreas Ericsson, (Wed Aug 29, 3:00 am)
Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive fi ..., Nix, (Sat Sep 1, 5:20 pm)