verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment

peff · peff · commit 641084b618dd · 2018-05-21T23:50:11.000-04:00
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 &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
@@ -810,7 +810,10 @@ static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest)
 
 	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':
