File 0008-verify_dotfile-mention-case-insensitivity-in-comment.patch of Package git.9694

From 641084b618ddbe099f0992161988c3e479ae848b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 09:56:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 08/11] 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>
---
 read-cache.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -810,7 +810,10 @@ static int verify_dotfile(const char *re
 
 	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':