Eli5 Why can’t there be 2 files with the same name in the same directory but in the recycle bin, it’ll allow it?

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Eli5 Why can’t there be 2 files with the same name in the same directory but in the recycle bin, it’ll allow it?

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This is not a ELI5 but it can be done.
Technically you can but it requires some funky steps, git knowledge and you can’t really see it in windows but they are both there.
So the file system in windows are case insensitive. That means that windows sees file.jpg and File.jpg as the same file.
Linux and Macos can be installed with a case sensitive file system, I don’t know if windows allows this. So the files file.jpg and File.jpg is seen as two different files.
Now if you create a Git repository on a case sensitive file system you can create the before mentioned files, file.jpg and File.jpg. Push them to a remote repository. Now you have to pull the remote Git repository to a windows computer. You now have two files “with the same name” on windows. This will make git think there are changes when the is non as far as I remember.

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