Yep, this is a known issue. We are still brain storming a solution, as we can't remove things from the CDN, we are all ears if anyone has any ideas...

Sorry for that, as @thomasdavis said, we are finding a good solution for it, and I think there is a workaround for Mac now.

I was able to work around this using a sparse checkout: http://briancoyner.github.io/blog/2013/06/05/git-sparse-checkout/

Pretty annoying on Windows though.

ref issue ticket: #3792

Workaround:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8904327/case-sensitivity-in-git/12085233#12085233
http://www.woodcp.com/2013/01/git-unite-fix-case-sensitive-file-paths-on-windows/

This is an issue on OS X. And those workarounds don't seem to work, @PeterDaveHello.

Have you tried it @gf3? I thought case-sensitive filesystem on OS X will help.

HFS+ is case insensitive by default.

But you can create a case-sensitive, right?

Yes, you can but (and I'm guesstimating) 97% of people don't.

you can run into serious issues when formatting a mac as case-sensitive. it is not recommended.

So I just said that is workaround ... not a solution ...

+1 for fixing this, I can't commit. Every time I try to stage my own files, git complains about index.lock (doesn't exist).

#3792 may help also

See https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/blob/master/documents/sparseCheckout.md, will help.

New link: https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/blob/master/documents/sparseCheckout.md

Thanks @gordonwoodhull

is there anything actionable here? we won't modify existing files because that would be a breaking change.

Closing as this isn't actionable, but have pinned for visibility as this will be a forever issue with this repo (and other related cdnjs repos).