git clone strace/strace on macOS fails: repo contains case-sensitive paths

[mhansen]

mark@Marks-MBP-2~/projects> git clone https://github.com/strace/strace.git
Cloning into 'strace'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 153, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (153/153), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (101/101), done.
remote: Total 55999 (delta 80), reused 94 (delta 47), pack-reused 55846
Receiving objects: 100% (55999/55999), 17.96 MiB | 6.24 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (42649/42649), done.
Checking out files: 100% (2573/2573), done.
warning: the following paths have collided (e.g. case-sensitive paths
on a case-insensitive filesystem) and only one from the same
colliding group is in the working tree:

  'tests/strace-T.test'
  'tests/strace-t.test'

Expected: no errors cloning on macOS (I get that it's a Linux tool, but I'm doing my development on mac)

[vapier]

you can fix macOS so the filesystem is case sensitive and then it's not a problem

[mhansen]

Yeah, macOS's filesystem is pretty wild. All the same, would you review a patch if I sent one through to rename these tests? Of course, I think I'll have to prepare it on Linux :-)

[Pegasust]

Hi, sorry for necromancing. My setup involves Windows + WSL 2 with Windows mount extensively so I also run into this issue.

You could maybe develop this project inside a container with a volume not binded to your filesystem. I'm using Docker, which is also available on MacOS: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/install/

I use VSCode primarily; .devcontainer is not really an option because it binds to the filesystem so I'm using the web interface instead.

My current setup

docker-compose -f strace-dev.docker-compose up --abort-on-container-exit

Relevant files

# dev.Dockerfile
FROM gitpod/openvscode-server:latest
ARG git_remote=https://github.com/strace/strace.git
EXPOSE 3000
LABEL name="git-codeweb" \
      version="0.0.1"

# Add more packages if needed here; the packages in the RUN
# command shows packages installed from gitpod/openvscode-server
# USER root
# RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
#       git sudo libatomic1

# WORKDIR /home/workspace
USER openvscode-server

RUN git clone ${git_remote}

# strace-dev.docker-compose
services:
  dev-web:
    image: git-codeweb
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: dev.Dockerfile
      args:
        git_remote: https://github.com/strace/strace.git
    ports:
    - 3000:3000
    volumes:
    # the workspaces stored in this container
    - workspace:/home/workspace
    # the vscode extensions that user installed
    # - ~/.vscode-server/extensions:/home/.openvscode-server/extensions
    # the user previous user data from vscode
    # - ~/.vscode-server/data:/home/.openvscode-server/data
volumes:
  workspace: {}