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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:58:50 -0400
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On 08/25/2011 10:45 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> Should all of our matches be case-insensitive? That is, should we be
> matching both .HTML and .html? Clearly lowercase is the One True Way,
> but I don't know what kind of junk people with case-insensitive
> filesystems have, or whether we should even worry about it.

In the Windows world, uppercase extensions are common. Also, one often 
finds .htm on Windows rather than .html.

Speaking of other platforms, on Mac OS X:

Objective-C is .m
Objective-C++ is .mm (and long-deprecated .M is probably not relevant)

-- ES