From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Esko Luontola <esko.luontola@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:04:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090513210425.GD6579@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905131131240.3343@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:37:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note: in all of the above, I assume that people care more about just plain
> UTF characters (and the insane NFD form OS X uses) than about worrying
> about the _really_ subtle issues of case-independence. Those are a major
> pain, but they will need even more "internal" support, because there
> simply isn't any sane wrapping method.
Stupid question --- if we get something that works for Windows and
MacOS X, is there any reason why we need to solve the general problem
of case-insentive filesystems? It's really backwards compatibility
with Legacy OS's that most important, right? Are there any other
systems other than Windows and Mac OS X which (a) perpetrate case
insensitivity on application programmers, and (b) which current or
future git users are likely to care about?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-13 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 15:06 Cross-Platform Version Control Esko Luontola
2009-05-12 15:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-12 16:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-12 17:56 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-12 20:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-12 21:16 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-13 0:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-13 5:34 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-13 6:49 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 10:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <43d8ce650905130340q596043d5g45b342b62fe20e8d@mail.gmail.com>
2009-05-13 10:41 ` John Tapsell
2009-05-13 13:42 ` Jay Soffian
2009-05-13 13:44 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 13:50 ` Jay Soffian
2009-05-13 13:57 ` John Tapsell
2009-05-13 15:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-13 16:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-13 17:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-14 1:49 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-12 16:16 ` Jeff King
2009-05-12 16:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-13 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 17:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-13 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 18:26 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-13 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 21:04 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-05-13 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 21:08 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-13 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 20:57 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-13 21:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 21:30 ` Jay Soffian
2009-05-13 21:47 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-12 18:28 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-05-12 18:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-12 18:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-12 21:43 ` [PATCH] Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii file/usernames Heiko Voigt
2009-05-12 21:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-14 17:59 ` [PATCH v2] Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenames Heiko Voigt
2009-05-15 10:52 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-18 9:37 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 22:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-20 12:14 ` [RFC PATCH] check for filenames that only differ in case to sample pre-commit hook Heiko Voigt
2009-05-15 14:57 ` [PATCH v2] Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenames Jakub Narebski
2009-05-18 9:50 ` [PATCH] " Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 10:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-18 11:50 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 12:04 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-19 20:01 ` [PATCH v4] " Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 14:42 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2009-05-18 20:35 ` Julian Phillips
2009-05-15 18:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14 13:48 ` Cross-Platform Version Control Peter Krefting
2009-05-14 19:58 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-14 20:21 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-14 22:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-15 11:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-27 8:55 Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach Martin Langhoff
2009-04-28 11:24 ` Cross-Platform Version Control (was: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29 6:55 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-04-29 7:52 ` Cross-Platform Version Control Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29 8:25 ` Martin Langhoff
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