From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 13:56:50 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
X-Git-Tag: v2.13.7~1^2~2
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/641084b618ddbe099f0992161988c3e479ae848b?ds=inline;hp=--cc

verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment

We're more restrictive than we need to be in matching ".GIT"
on case-sensitive filesystems; let's make a note that this
is intentional.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---

641084b618ddbe099f0992161988c3e479ae848b
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 5c5dfc629d..333e0c5429 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -810,7 +810,10 @@ static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest)
 
 	switch (*rest) {
 	/*
-	 * ".git" followed by NUL or slash is bad.
+	 * ".git" followed by NUL or slash is bad. Note that we match
+	 * case-insensitively here, even if ignore_case is not set.
+	 * This outlaws ".GIT" everywhere out of an abundance of caution,
+	 * since there's really no good reason to allow it.
 	 */
 	case 'g':
 	case 'G':