Git checkout file - casing in file name

Question

Hello!
Git newbie here :)

Faced casing-related problem: file aspnetdb.mdf was removed from repository several commits ago, I decided to restore it from some of earlier commits and did it is such way:

git checkout master~3 aspnetdb.mdf

wanted to get file from 3rd back commit

But git said, that there was no such file.
Then I executed following:

git checkout master~3 ASPNETDB.MDF

which worked fine - I had got needed file.

HOWEVER. Command git checkout master~3 aspnetdb_log.ldf (with low-case file name) command executed fine. During all dev. Process both files were processing in same way (no hack renames etc. :) ).

How explain such behavior? What had I done wrong?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comment, since you are using Git on a case insensitive system (Windows), try and set core.ignorecase properly. Check with:

$ git-config --list

If not set:

$ git-config --global core.ignorecase true