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bozaro / git-lfs-migrate

Simple project for convert old repository for using git-lfs feature
MIT License
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File ending case sensitive #43

Closed svendhhh closed 7 years ago

svendhhh commented 7 years ago

I've just run the migration tool on a project with, among many others, *.dll specified as files to migrate to LFS. This worked for the majority of files, but there was one file somefilename.DLL which wasn't.

There was a warning about this being tracked, but not a pointer when I cloned the project.

This suggests that *.dll in the .gitattributes is handled in a case insensitive way by git lfs, but that git-lfs-migrate is case sensitive. It should probably behave the same way as git lfs and include any casing of the filters.

bozaro commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately this git behavior is platform specific. Git handle file extensions case insensitive only on case insensitive file systems (Windows). But if you try checkout converted *.DLL files on case sensitive file system (Linux) then you case see pointer data instead of file content. I strongly recommend add both file mask in .gitattributes.