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diff --git a/doc/bugs/OSX_case_insensitive_filesystem/comment_1_2e81165ac03e1d0566c81016e7728ee6._comment b/doc/bugs/OSX_case_insensitive_filesystem/comment_1_2e81165ac03e1d0566c81016e7728ee6._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..01f355ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/OSX_case_insensitive_filesystem/comment_1_2e81165ac03e1d0566c81016e7728ee6._comment @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2016-04-20T18:14:25Z" + content=""" +So the directory structure got lower cased when you copied it from OSX to +linux. OSX remembered a lower-case name for the J4 directory, for example, +and propigated that over to linux. + +Unfortunately, git-annex is stuck using mixed case hash directories for +backwards compatability reasons. Changing to all lower-case hash +directories would need every git-annex repo to be converted; would +invalidate all old tags and branches and history in the repos, etc. +This is discussed in [[design/new_repo_versions]]. + +It's actually possible to make brand-new git-annex repos use all lower case +hash directories today, by setting `git config annex.tune.objecthashlower true` +before you run `git annex init` for the first time. + +If you know you will need to move a repository between case-insensative and +case-sensative filesystems, you could use that configuration. But that +would be very forward looking, and instead users are just going to stumble +over the mixed case directories from time to time. + +What I'd recommend you do is, move the repository back to OSX, and then +make a clone of it on the linux system, and use `git annex move --all +--from origin` to move all the annexed file contents over from OSX to +linux. This method avoids the problem entirely. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/design/new_repo_versions.mdwn b/doc/design/new_repo_versions.mdwn index a42b52b1a..97bf2c0a7 100644 --- a/doc/design/new_repo_versions.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/new_repo_versions.mdwn @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Possible reasons to make changes: The mixed case hash directories have caused trouble on case-insensative filesystems, although that has mostly been papered over to avoid - problems. + problems. One remaining problem users can stuble on occurs + when [[moving a repository from OSX to Linux|bugs/OSX_case_insensitive_filesystem]]. * The hash directories, and also the per-key directories can slow down using a repository on a disk (both SSD and spinning). |