From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:07:47 +0100 Message-ID: <85ejcn5jsc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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> <7v7iif28i2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vprw7zv7s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 12 13:07:16 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 1JDf8n-0002fm-OL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:07:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761791AbYALMGl (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:06:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761530AbYALMGl (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:06:41 -0500 Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]:58360 "EHLO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759431AbYALMGk (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:06:40 -0500 Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF3D103986; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:06:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76CA2130A2; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:06:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-008-152.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.8.152]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E6A1C36A7; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:06:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 4FD651C3E010; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:07:46 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:43:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/5478/Fri Jan 11 16:39:22 2008 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Kevin Ballard 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