Sortable vs sortable causes issues on case insensitive filesystems

[zpao]

Simply checking out cdnjs results in a file being modified because you have https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/tree/master/ajax/libs/Sortable and https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/tree/master/ajax/libs/sortable. It's not just my fs though, it looks like you own site can't handle this (search for "sortable" and you see the summary for Sortable but view the page and it's sortable).

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[thomasdavis]

Yep, this is a known issue. We are still brain storming a solution, as we can't remove things from the CDN, we are all ears if anyone has any ideas...

[PeterDaveHello]

Sorry for that, as @thomasdavis said, we are finding a good solution for it, and I think there is a workaround for Mac now.

[xirzec]

I was able to work around this using a sparse checkout: http://briancoyner.github.io/blog/2013/06/05/git-sparse-checkout/

Pretty annoying on Windows though.

[PeterDaveHello]

ref issue ticket: #3792

[PeterDaveHello]

Workaround:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8904327/case-sensitivity-in-git/12085233#12085233
http://www.woodcp.com/2013/01/git-unite-fix-case-sensitive-file-paths-on-windows/

[gf3]

This is an issue on OS X. And those workarounds don't seem to work, @PeterDaveHello.

[PeterDaveHello]

Have you tried it @gf3? I thought case-sensitive filesystem on OS X will help.

[zpao]

HFS+ is case insensitive by default.

[PeterDaveHello]

But you can create a case-sensitive, right?

[zpao]

Yes, you can but (and I'm guesstimating) 97% of people don't.

[gf3]

you can run into serious issues when formatting a mac as case-sensitive. it is not recommended.

[PeterDaveHello]

So I just said that is workaround ... not a solution ...

[hassankhan]

+1 for fixing this, I can't commit. Every time I try to stage my own files, git complains about index.lock (doesn't exist).

[PeterDaveHello]

#3792 may help also

[PeterDaveHello]

See https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/blob/master/documents/sparseCheckout.md, will help.

[gordonwoodhull]

New link: https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/blob/master/documents/sparseCheckout.md

[PeterDaveHello]

Thanks @gordonwoodhull

[xtuc]

is there anything actionable here? we won't modify existing files because that would be a breaking change.

[MattIPv4]

Closing as this isn't actionable, but have pinned for visibility as this will be a forever issue with this repo (and other related cdnjs repos).