Re: deleting invisible files in git

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:

> In message <address@hidden>, Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> writes
> >  Evidently git is intelligent enough to realize that the Capitalized files
> > are duplicates of the lower-case (does it handle symlinks?), but now I
> > can't get rid of them.
> > 
> No - afaik git does NOT handle symlinks.

Git handles symlinks just fine.

> If I've got it right, duplicate files are impossible in git. Don't 
> forget - Linus thinks in linux mode and is used to writing file 
> systems...

Depends on what you mean by duplicate. Git is very strict in that it does 
not modify/reencode/munge filenames at all. And it expects the same 
courtesy of the filesystem.

In Graham's case, this assumption was wrong.

Git had two different versions of the filename (although with the same 
content), but the filesystem interpreted the filenames as identical. Hence 
the screwup.

Ciao,
Dscho