Git vs. VFAT

June 17th, 2009 Ever copied your Git development tree to a VFAT Filesystem media? Well, if you did then you probably encountered this later:

fatal: Not a git repository

The fix is pretty simple. Git depends on the uppercase file naming of the .git/HEAD file. So if you find it to be lower case then:

mv .git/head .git/HEAD

Dear Git-developers,

why is such an insanity necessary?

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