From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:39:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080325113956.GA7559@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803220955140.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:21:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> ... and on a vfat filesystem under Linux (which is
> case-insensitive and *really* odd wrt case preservation - it remembers
> the name of removed files, so it preserves case even across removal and
> re-creation!)
Interesting.
That sounds a bit like the claimed windows 95 properly of 'tunneling' renames.
ISTR that it was to catch a move via 'shortname' which then preserved the longname.
However I'd have expected the Linux version to always use the long name...
DF
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-22 17:21 [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1 Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:22 ` [PATCH 1/7] Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:25 ` [PATCH 2/7] Move name hashing functions into a file of its own Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:28 ` [PATCH 3/7] Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:30 ` [PATCH 4/7] Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:33 ` [PATCH 5/7] Add 'core.ignorecase' option Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:38 ` [PATCH 6/7] Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:45 ` [PATCH 7/7] Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 18:06 ` [PATCH 0/7] Final words Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 21:19 ` [PATCH 8/7] When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 21:22 ` [PATCH 9/7] Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment Linus Torvalds
2008-03-23 5:49 ` [PATCH 7/7] Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files Junio C Hamano
2008-03-23 6:13 ` [PATCH 6/7] Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems Junio C Hamano
2008-03-23 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:36 ` [PATCH 1/7] Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-22 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-22 17:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-22 22:01 ` [PATCH] t0050: Set core.ignorecase case to activate case insensitivity Steffen Prohaska
2008-03-25 6:57 ` [PATCH] git-init: autodetect core.ignorecase Dmitry Potapov
2008-03-25 9:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-25 10:49 ` [PATCH v2] " Dmitry Potapov
2008-03-25 11:03 ` [PATCH] " Dmitry Potapov
2008-03-25 8:14 ` [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1 Dmitry Potapov
2008-03-25 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-26 2:46 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-03-26 3:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-25 11:39 ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2008-03-25 18:26 ` Jan Hudec
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