From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:27:33 -0800 Message-ID: <7v7iif28i2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <579DF776-4F4E-464C-88DB-B22C2EC291BD@sb.org> <200801120026.01930.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> <1973E1D5-C8CC-4979-A085-85A2C5A13E57@sb.org> <200801120115.41274.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> <191B60D7-FD89-48D8-8D48-C91645D4814D@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Robin Rosenberg , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 12 01:28:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JDUEO-0003Pi-BW for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:28:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762384AbYALA1o (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760327AbYALA1o (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:44 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:61603 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754068AbYALA1n (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:43 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2E238FF; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A890B38FE; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <191B60D7-FD89-48D8-8D48-C91645D4814D@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:25:26 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Kevin Ballard writes: > Is there a reason for this? It seems like it would be trivial to end > up with misdiagnosed "untracked" files when using any language other > than English given this behaviuor. No. The assumption of the code has always been that sane filesystems would return from readdir() the names you gave from creat().