On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
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> 
> Of course, case-insensitivity is about the working tree only. But when
> I merge another branch to the current one, git normally checks that it
> is not going to overwrite existing files in the *work tree* and refuses
> to do the merge if some files may be overwritten.

I do agree - but this is not really about the *merge*. It is about the 
checkout.

Imagine that the merge had been done on a sane filesystem, and you're just 
pulling it or cloning it. No merge on your machine, but the problem is the 
same.

		Linus
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