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Marian
Marian

Reputation: 15

Make Git internals (.git directory) be case insensitive compatible

I want to sync the same repositories between Linux/Mac/Windows so I need the Git internals (basically what's inside .git) be case insensitive compatible (so I don't want duplicate files there where only the case differs).

My main work machine is on Linux from where I want to sync these Git repositories to Mac/Windows.

I noticed that the directory .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/ on Linux sometimes contains the same branch name with the original name (like TICKET-123-fix-this-thing) but also lowercased (ticket-123-fix-this-thing).

Is there a way to avoid this behavior (and possibly others I haven't yet noticed) so I can use this same repository on Mac and Windows? So basically, what I need to do to make the .git directory fully compatible (with regards to case) between Linux/Mac/Windows.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 106

Answers (1)

torek
torek

Reputation: 489638

You cannot do this. The core.ignorecase setting informs Git how your system works. It does not change how your system works. Overriding the setting simply mis-informs Git, which will subsequently misbehave (in predictable ways which are occasionally useful, but won't help you here).

What you can do, on a macOS system, is make yourself a case-sensitive file system. Here, your Git will behave the same way it does on a standard Linux file system. See my answer here.

You can, on a Linux system, make yourself a case-insensitive file system; see this ServerFault question.

Upvotes: 3

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