How to make repository portable between Windows and Linux (case sensitivity inside .git)?-CodePudding

I have a repository that I've worked on mostly on Linux. Now I want to copy it to a Windows machine. However inside .git I have two files like below (differing only in case):

.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/xyz-1012-see-more
.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/XYZ-1012-see-more

Is there a way to run a script on this repository to make it portable to Windows? Or am I just stuck with those two remotes because they are so on the remote server?

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

Unfortunately, there is no way to properly handle this on Windows.

On the linux side of things, you can spot the problematic branch/tag/remote branches names :

# list all ref names :
git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)"

# shell way to spot which names are going to yield case issues :
git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' |\
    sort | uniq -c | awk '{ if ( $1 > 1 ) print $2; }'

(another way is to write a script in your favorite language to process the output for git for-each-ref)

Once you have spotted these, you may if you can choose a way to rename these branches/tags/remote branches ...