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From:   Theodore Dubois <tblodt@icloud.com>
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Subject: linux.git is broken on a case-insensitive filesystem
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Date:   Sat, 26 Dec 2020 14:30:13 -0800
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I'm currently hacking on Linux trying to run a sort of UML-style thing =
on macOS (please don't question my sanity :), and I've run into various =
issues stemming from macOS having a case-insensitive filesystem.=20

The one you run into immediately is: there are a number of files (mostly =
in netfilter) that have different uppercase and lowercase versions. =
net/netfilter/xt_DSCP.c and net/netfilter/xt_dscp.c are quite different. =
Last I checked, git would pseudo-randomly pick one of these to check =
out, and then show the other one as having unstaged changes making it =
look like the first one. This causes problems when switching branches. =
I've worked around this with a sparse checkout that excludes these =
files, but it's not great.

The gitignore also contains the pattern *.s, which excludes *.S as well =
when git is ignoring case.

Is there any interest in fixing these?

~Theodore