From ef6209db43d2dcea8a74805d5425988b0f7bf4ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://joey.kitenet.net/" Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:39:45 +0000 Subject: Comment moderation --- ...mment_20_7e328b970169fffb8bce373d1522743b._comment | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/git-annex_directory_hashing_problems_on_osx/comment_20_7e328b970169fffb8bce373d1522743b._comment (limited to 'doc/bugs/git-annex_directory_hashing_problems_on_osx/comment_20_7e328b970169fffb8bce373d1522743b._comment') diff --git a/doc/bugs/git-annex_directory_hashing_problems_on_osx/comment_20_7e328b970169fffb8bce373d1522743b._comment b/doc/bugs/git-annex_directory_hashing_problems_on_osx/comment_20_7e328b970169fffb8bce373d1522743b._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8f0f5ef18 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/git-annex_directory_hashing_problems_on_osx/comment_20_7e328b970169fffb8bce373d1522743b._comment @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="ssqq" + ip="208.70.196.4" + subject="Still a problem on 0.20110523" + date="2011-06-02T20:31:55Z" + content=""" +Hi, + +(I'm new to git and git annex, so please forgive any mistakes I make...) + +My repo is messed up right now. The fact that I copied the repo with rsync -a back and forth from a case insensitive filesystem to a case sensitive one, probably didn't help. + +I believe the annexed files in .git/annex/objects/ are still using a mixed case directory hashing scheme. That's the problem I'm having. The symlinks point to the wrong case and are now broken. I don't think the latest versions of git-annex changed that (it only changed the hashing under .git-annex, right?). + +Even if I clean up my repo, I think I'm still going to have a problem because I have one repo on an OS X case insensitive filesystem and my other repos on case sensitive Linux filesystems. Potentially the directory name under .git/annex/objects will have a different case. Then the symlink might have a different case than my Linux FS. Does git-annex track changes in git by the contents of the symlink? In which case the case difference would show up as a change even though there is no change? + +Is it possible to change the directory hashing scheme under .git/annex/objects to use lowercase names? + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3