[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joey.kitenet.net/"
 nickname="joey"
 subject="comment 7"
 date="2011-03-31T19:08:01Z"
 content="""
git 1.7.4 does not make things better. With it, if I add first \"X/foo\" and then \"x/bar\", it commits \"X/bar\".

That will *certianly* cause problems when interoperating with a repo clone on a case-sensative filesystem, since
git-annex there will not see the location log that git committed to the wrong case directory.

It's possible there is some interoperability problem when pulling from linux like you did, onto HFS+, too. I am not quite sure. Ah, I did find one.. if I clone the repo with \"X/foo\" in it to a case-sensative filesystem, and add a \"x/foo\" there,
and pull that commit back to HFS+, git says:

<pre>
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating 8754149..e3d4640
Fast-forward
 x/foo |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 x/foo
joey@gnu:/mnt/r4>ls
X/
joey@gnu:/mnt/r4>git st
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use \"git add <file>...\" to update what will be committed)
#   (use \"git checkout -- <file>...\" to discard changes in working directory

#	modified:   X/foo
</pre>

Aha -- that lets me reproduce your problem with the same file being staged twice with different capitalizations, too:

<pre>
joey@gnu:/mnt/r4>echo haaai >| x/foo
joey@gnu:/mnt/r4>git st
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use \"git add <file>...\" to update what will be committed)
#   (use \"git checkout -- <file>...\" to discard changes in working directory)
#
#	modified:   X/bar
#	modified:   X/foo
#	modified:   x/foo
#
joey@gnu:/mnt/r4>git commit -a
fatal: Will not add file alias 'X/Bar' ('x/Bar' already exists in index)
</pre>

And modified files that git refuses to commit, which entirely explains [[git-annex_has_issues_with_git_when_staging__47__commiting_logs]].

<pre>
joey@gnu:/mnt/r4>git add X/foo
joey@gnu:/mnt/r4>git commit X/foo
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use \"git add <file>...\" to update what will be committed)
#   (use \"git checkout -- <file>...\" to discard changes in working directory)
#
#	modified:   X/bar
#	modified:   X/foo
#
no changes added to commit (use \"git add\" and/or \"git commit -a\")
</pre>

I think git is frankly, buggy. It seems I will need to work around this by stopping using mixed case hashing for location logs.
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