From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Cc: Medve Emilian <Emilian.Medve@freescale.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6 clone with CygWin git
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:50:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47357EDF.2000708@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473495E1.3080305@obry.net>
Pascal Obry wrote:
> David Brown a écrit :
>> It's because of the case-insensitive nature of the filesystem. The kernel
>> contains both an xt_connmark.h and an xt_CONNMARK.h file, that are
>> different. But only one exists on Windows, so git sees the first one it
>> wrote as having been modified.
>
> Probably not something for the list... but if you ask me this is just
> bad practice anyway. Casing has no semantic, it is nonsense to have two
> files with the same name with different casing!
>
You're right, it's not something for this list. Try arguing your case at
the linux kernel mailing list.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 14:29 linux-2.6 clone with CygWin git Medve Emilian
2007-11-09 15:00 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-09 15:02 ` Simon Sasburg
2007-11-09 15:03 ` David Brown
2007-11-09 17:16 ` Pascal Obry
2007-11-10 9:50 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-11-09 21:24 ` Brian Dessent
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