From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:07:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ejcn5jsc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:43:35 -0500")
Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:
> On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>> Apparently so. By Junio's definition, HFS+ is not a sane filesystem,
>>> and as git grows more popular with OS X users, this issue is going to
>>> crop up more frequently.
>>
>> It's not "my" definition, but you asked the reason and I gave
>> the answer. We can close this issue of "is HFS+ sane" now.
>> HFS+ is insane, period. And as Linus said, you cannot forgive
>> its insanity using the historical baggage argument, like MS-DOS.
>
> Fair enough, though I believe OS X has a good reason, namely it's an
> OS designed for regular users rather than servers or
> programmers. Case-sensitivity would confuse my mother.
If case-sensitivity would be the primary cause of confusion in
mother-computer interoperation, you have a remarkable mother.
"Type things the same way and they work the same" is a simple enough
rule.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-12 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-11 20:19 Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 21:09 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 21:19 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-11 21:59 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-11 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-11 21:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-11 21:44 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 22:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-11 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-11 23:10 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-11 23:12 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 23:26 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-12 0:03 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12 0:15 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-12 0:25 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12 0:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12 0:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-12 1:16 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12 1:43 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12 12:07 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-01-12 15:03 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-01-12 0:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12 0:57 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-12 16:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-12 14:46 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-01-12 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-12 19:29 ` Dmitry Potapov
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