Git-windows case sensitive file names not handled properly

Question

We have the git bare repository in unix that has files with same name that differs only in cases.

Example:

GRANT.sql
grant.sql

When

Answer 1

I just encountered a similar problem. In my case, the two files with similar names differing only in case were in a subdirectory that wasn't relevant on the Windows clone. Git 1.7 has a sparse checkout feature that lets you exclude certain files from a working copy. To exclude this directory:

git config core.sparsecheckout true
echo '*' >.git/info/sparse-checkout
echo '!unwanted_dir/' >>.git/info/sparse-checkout
git read-tree --reset -u HEAD

After this, the unwanted_dir/ subdirectory was completely gone from my working copy and Git continues to work with the rest of the files as normal.

If your GRANT.sql and grant.sql are not relevant on the Windows clone, then you can add their names to .git/info/sparse-checkout to exclude those files specifically.