From: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
To: "Niklas Höglund" <nhoglund@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: git and file name case on cygwin
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:17:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C5EAFE.6030900@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170597557.7538.12.camel@localhost>
Niklas Höglund wrote:
> It's true that I don't intend to do any Linux development on a Windows
> system. I'd use a Linux system or a Linux VM for that. I do on occasion
> have a look through the Linux source code when I'm struggling with some
> badly documented hardware, but I could use a tarball for that. (I guess
> the netfilter code would still get mangled, but I can live with that.)
>
> Niklas
>
Note that cygwin provides mananged mounts (mount -omanaged) that handles
files whose names differ only in case. The names are of course mangled
when exploring via native windows tools but not cygwin tools. e.g.,
t>touch file1 File1
t>ls
File1 file1
t>cmd /c dir /b
%46ile1
file1
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-04 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-03 22:00 git and file name case on cygwin Niklas Höglund
2007-02-04 1:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-04 1:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-04 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-04 1:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-04 13:59 ` Niklas Höglund
2007-02-04 14:17 ` Mark Levedahl [this message]
2007-02-04 14:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-04 15:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
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