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Subject:	Re: du crashes if .lnk symlink and a folder it points to are named the same, differing only in letter case
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On Mar 25 12:35, Ilya Basin wrote:
> I needed that because one git repository has branches named
> "Epam/a" and "epam/b", and git was always creating the "missing" epam
> directory at fetch.
> 
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 adminpwd None 0 Mar 25 11:42 Epam
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 adminpwd None 0 Mar 25 11:42 epam
> 
> why no " -> Epam" part?

Because your system is set to case insensitive.  See the User's Guide:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive

Corinna

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