From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fork0@t-online.de (Alex Riesen) Subject: Re: file name case-sensitivity issues Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 17:47:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20060525154735.GA6119@steel.home> References: <20060523210615.GB5869@steel.home> <7v7j4c4af3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 25 17:48:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjI3t-0004jr-I1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 17:47:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751032AbWEYPrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 11:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751023AbWEYPrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 11:47:42 -0400 Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.85]:57230 "EHLO mailout11.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750777AbWEYPrl (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 11:47:41 -0400 Received: from fwd30.aul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1FjI3m-00048n-00; Thu, 25 May 2006 17:47:38 +0200 Received: from tigra.home (EY0knvZHoe2l5yn41-GeLANTMwd3lQZvmLaejhhI0OgHBZkJljV3wJ@[84.160.104.11]) by fwd30.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1FjI3k-1ttJ0S0; Thu, 25 May 2006 17:47:36 +0200 Received: from steel.home (steel.home [192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE84C277B5; Thu, 25 May 2006 17:47:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from raa by steel.home with local (Exim 4.42 #1 (Debian)) id 1FjI3j-0001kG-91; Thu, 25 May 2006 17:47:35 +0200 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v7j4c4af3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-ID: EY0knvZHoe2l5yn41-GeLANTMwd3lQZvmLaejhhI0OgHBZkJljV3wJ X-TOI-MSGID: 0861358a-f9f0-494d-801a-e42e847d0efb Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano, Wed, May 24, 2006 00:57:04 +0200: > I'd call that a PEBCAK. It is not solvable there though. > If you _know_ you are working on a case challenged filesystem, I > think the best thing you can do is not to work on a project that > has files in different cases on such a filesystem. That is seldom an acceptable suggestion. Besides, how about when you don't _know_, like when cloning onto an usb-stick mounted with auto-detection? Will the files with case-different names just overwrite each other?