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Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive (lemmy.world)
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[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 38 points 2 months ago

To screw with Windows users, you should sometimes put a README.md as well as a README.MD in your git repos. It leads to interesting results.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

surely Git warns about stuff like this when you clone it, right ?

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

It tells you there's a name clash, and then it clones it anyway and you end up with the contents of README.MD in README.md as an unstaged change.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

sounds like actually a good solution ... tho doesnt sound like it would work for more than 2 similarly-named files

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

I don't think it's intended as a "solution", it just lets the clobbering that is caused by the case insensitiveness happen.

So git just goes:

  • checkout content of README.md to README.md (OS creates README.md)
  • checkout content of README.MD to README.MD (OS overwrites README.md)

If you add a third or fourth file ... it would just continue, and file gets checked out first gets the filename and whichever file gets checked out last, gets the content.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

thats better than Git just choosing a file to keep.

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