From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:02:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mz1lt8bg.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704061502000.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:06:33 -0700 (PDT)")
>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
Linus> People who do it tend to universally do it because they haven't thought
Linus> it through, and are supporting some older behaviour. And in the process
Linus> they make their filesystem less reliable *and* slower.
Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the
argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same
word, right?".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-06 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 5:42 [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-06 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-06 22:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-06 23:02 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2007-04-06 23:22 ` Bill Lear
2007-04-06 23:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-06 23:52 ` Bill Lear
2007-04-07 0:18 ` Kyle McMartin
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