Hi Junio,

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
>
> >> I wonder if we want (possibly local) test_cmp_fspath that can be
> >> used more like
> >>
> >>    test_cmp_fspath "$(pwd)/realgitdir" "$(sed -e "s/^gitdir: //" 
> >> newdir/.git)"
> >>
> >> to compare two paths, honoring the case sensitivity of the
> >> filesystem.
> >
> > I agree that that's a much better approach to fix the issue.
>
> I find that response somewhat surprising :-|.  In any case, I am not
> sure what kind of 'path' other than the filesystem one we would deal
> with in the context of Git and its test suite, so perhaps we should
> drop 'fs' from the name of the helper function if we were to go that
> route.

The other path category is the paths in the index, which _are_
case-sensitive, no matter what core.ignoreCase says.

So I'd rather keep the `fs`.

Ciao,
Dscho

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