Jeff King authored Dec 15, 2014 and Junio C Hamano committed Dec 17, 2014

The point of disallowing ".git" in the index is that we
would never want to accidentally overwrite files in the
repository directory. But this means we need to respect the
filesystem's idea of when two paths are equal. The prior
commit added a helper to make such a comparison for HFS+;
let's use it in verify_path.

We make this check optional for two reasons:

  1. It restricts the set of allowable filenames, which is
     unnecessary for people who are not on HFS+. In practice
     this probably doesn't matter, though, as the restricted
     names are rather obscure and almost certainly would
     never come up in practice.

  2. It has a minor performance penalty for every path we
     insert into the index.

This patch ties the check to the core.protectHFS config
option. Though this is expected to be most useful on OS X,
we allow it to be set everywhere, as HFS+ may be mounted on
other platforms. The variable does default to on for OS X,
though.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>