From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests. Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:52:33 -0500 Message-ID: <17942.56641.562796.690812@lisa.zopyra.com> References: <20070406054204.GA13108@Hermes.local> <7v7ispjhtx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <86mz1lt8bg.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" , Junio C Hamano , Brian Gernhardt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 07 02:51:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZyEZ-000461-OQ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:52:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933458AbXDFXwo (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:52:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933460AbXDFXwo (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:52:44 -0400 Received: from mail.zopyra.com ([65.68.225.25]:61238 "EHLO zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933458AbXDFXwm (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:52:42 -0400 Received: (from rael@localhost) by zopyra.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l36NqZ910480; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:52:35 -0600 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Friday, April 6, 2007 at 16:41:08 (-0700) Linus Torvalds writes: > > >On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> 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?". > >And "polish" and "Polish" is the same word, right? AnD i cOuLD wRite >THInGs LiKE thiS, aND it WouLd bE eaSiER tO REad, RiGHt? > >Case *does* matter. Anybody who claims otherwise is a total idiot. > >And no, e e cummings is not an example to the contrary. Quite the reverse. >Even people like e e cummings (known for his lack of capitalization) >actually became well-known exactly because he made capitalization *matter* >by flouting the rules (the same way he also flouted the rules of grammar >and other word usage!). And, just as you rearrange r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r to get grasshopper, you would get new filesytems that idiotically, and just as arbitrarily, considered them the same. Bill