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Bug 367248

Summary:	Case Sensitive Directories Linux vs. Windows
Product:	[Technology] JGit	Reporter:	Mahdi Yusuf <yusuf.mahdi>
Component:	JGit	Assignee:	Project Inbox <jgit.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pwebster, remy.suen, robin.rosenberg
Version:	0.9.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Mahdi Yusuf

2011-12-20 15:37:56 EST

Build Identifier: M20110909-1335

So for example in Linux names are case sensitive but they are not on windows, so the issue we are seeing here is that when a pair of directories on Linux exist but have the same name but in different cases and is checked out into Windows, collapses the directory structures on top of one another and depending on what gets pull down first it overwrites the directory with the latter one. 

From what we can gather than can be attributed to Windows case insensitivity when naming files and folders. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a repository on Linux with two directories with same name different case
2.Push it to repository.
3.Checkout repository on the windows machine.

Comment 1 Mahdi Yusuf

2011-12-20 15:53:08 EST

The first directory is created, and files placed into it. The the original files are deleted and the files from the second (differently cased) directory are placed inside without changing the directory case, causing git to think that a series of new files have been added to the original directory, and the original files being deleted.

Comment 2 Robin Rosenberg

2012-06-19 20:05:26 EDT

What do you want us to do? We cannot change Windows. 

You need to fix you repository on Linux before bringing it onto Windows.

Most definitely not a critical error in EGit. It is in your repository.