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On a case-insensitive file system, cgit recognizes not only .gitignore but also for instance .Gitignore as an ignore file. JGit only recognizes .gitignore in this exact casing. For instance on a case-sensitive HFS+ partition: $ ls -al total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 thomas staff 204 Nov 15 14:41 . drwxr-xr-x 32 thomas staff 1088 Oct 25 19:00 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 thomas staff 6148 Nov 15 13:23 .DS_Store drwxr-xr-x 12 thomas staff 408 Nov 15 00:22 .git -rw-r--r--@ 1 thomas staff 21 Nov 15 14:43 .gitignore drwxr-xr-x 13 thomas staff 442 Nov 15 13:25 testproject $ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit. # # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # modified: testproject/File with blanks.txt # # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # .gitignore no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") $ mv .gitignore .Gitignore $ ls -al total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 thomas staff 204 Nov 15 15:28 . drwxr-xr-x 32 thomas staff 1088 Oct 25 19:00 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 thomas staff 6148 Nov 15 13:23 .DS_Store -rw-r--r--@ 1 thomas staff 21 Nov 15 14:43 .Gitignore drwxr-xr-x 12 thomas staff 408 Nov 15 15:27 .git drwxr-xr-x 13 thomas staff 442 Nov 15 13:25 testproject $ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit. # # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # modified: testproject/File with blanks.txt # # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # .Gitignore no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") $ more .Gitignore .DS_Store ignored.txt $ ls -al testproject/i* -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas staff 28 Nov 15 13:25 testproject/ignored.txt $ git --version git version 1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26) $ (Yes, I know this git version is old...) testproject/ignored.txt is a newly added file, and is ignored. EGit/JGit shows me three unstaged changes, .Gitignore, testproject/File with blanks.txt, and testproject/ignored.txt . This may also affect .gitattributes, and possibly the .git directory itself. On the latter, cgit alsohandles some Window-specific quirks;see https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt
(In reply to Thomas Wolf from comment #0) > For instance on a case-sensitive HFS+ partition: s/case-sensitive/case-INsensitive/
