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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com,
	David Turner <dturner@twitter.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ignorecase: Fix git mv on insensitive filesystems
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 09:42:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399480977.11843.62.camel@stross> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5369CFDE.2070207@viscovery.net>

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:17 +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> >  		} else if (cache_name_pos(src, length) < 0)
> >  			bad = _("not under version control");
> > -		else if (lstat(dst, &st) == 0) {
> > +		else if (lstat(dst, &dst_st) == 0 &&
> > +			 (src_st.st_ino != dst_st.st_ino ||
> > +			  (src_st.st_ino == 0 && strcasecmp(src, dst)))) {
> 
> Don't do that. st_ino is zero on Windows only because we do not spend time
> to fill in the field. Don't use it as an indicator for a case-insensitive
> file system; zero may be a valid inode number on other systems.

I don't think it is a problem if zero is a valid inode.  The only thing
that happens when there is a zero inode, is that we have to compare
filenames.  The inode check is just an optimization to avoid doing a
bunch of strcasecmp on systems that don't have to.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-07 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-29 19:02 Bug: Case-insensitive filesystems can cause merge and checkout problems David Turner
2014-05-02  0:21 ` [PATCH] merge-recursive.c: Fix case-changing merge bug David Turner
2014-05-06 17:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 17:36     ` David Turner
2014-05-06 19:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 22:59         ` [PATCH 1/2] merge-recursive.c: Fix case-changing merge dturner
2014-05-06 22:59           ` [PATCH 2/2] ignorecase: Fix git mv on insensitive filesystems dturner
2014-05-07  6:17             ` Johannes Sixt
2014-05-07 16:42               ` David Turner [this message]
2014-05-07 17:46                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 18:01                   ` David Turner
2014-05-08  6:37                   ` Johannes Sixt
2014-05-08  8:55                     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-05-08 17:23                       ` [PATCH 0/2] " dturner
2014-05-08 17:23                         ` [PATCH 1/2] merge-recursive.c: Fix case-changing merge dturner
2014-05-08 19:45                           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 17:23                         ` [PATCH 2/2] ignorecase: Fix git mv on insensitive filesystems dturner
2014-05-08 19:54                           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 20:40                             ` David Turner
2014-05-08 20:55                               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08  1:22             ` brian m. carlson
2014-05-07 18:01           ` [PATCH 1/2] merge-recursive.c: Fix case-changing merge Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 18:13             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-07 20:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 20:48 [PATCH 2/2] ignorecase: Fix git mv on insensitive filesystems Thomas Braun

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