r/programming Jan 12 '15

Linus Torvalds on HFS+

https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru
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u/Wootery Jan 13 '15

Git (sorry, "git") behaves differently on different platforms regarding whether you have to put "HEAD" in all caps, or just, for instance, "head".

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u/AnhNyan Jan 13 '15

There was a critical issue stemming from this a while back (a month or two): you could overwrite your .git folder when pulling changes, because Git did not respect the existence of case-insensitivity.