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caseProblem

Showcase the git case problem for windows NTFS Folder

Steps to create the problem:

  • use Windows 10 with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) enabled
  • make sure that you didn't enable git option core.ignorecase on a global level
  • open a shell with administrator rights
  • create a folder as parent folder for your local repo clone and make it your current directory. In this text, I will use the folder D:\Git_CS.
  • use fsutil file setcasesensitiveinfo D:\Git_CS enable to make filenames in this folder case sensitive. This won't work without WSL!
  • clone this repo: git clone "https://github.com/Rolf-B/caseProblem.git" "D:\Git_CS\caseProblem"
    Windows adopts the case sensitive state for new folders, so the repo folder and all of its subfolders will have the casesensitive state too.
  • check with fsutil file querycasesensitiveinfo D:\Git_CS\caseProblem that the folder is indeed case sensitive (try type foo.txt and type Foo.txt too).
  • check with git config core.ignorecase that this flag has not been set by the clone process (which would happen when you clone into a case insensitive folder)
  • Run git status for the cloned repository. Foo.txt should be reported as modified, just after you cloned the repo.