From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: linux-2.6 clone with CygWin git Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:50:23 +0100 Message-ID: <47357EDF.2000708@op5.se> References: <598D5675D34BE349929AF5EDE9B03E270174D8A2@az33exm24.fsl.freescale.net> <20071109150306.GA20531@old.davidb.org> <473495E1.3080305@obry.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Medve Emilian , git@vger.kernel.org To: Pascal Obry X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 10 10:50:45 2007 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 1IqmzE-0005BV-4k for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:50:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751102AbXKJJu2 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:50:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751045AbXKJJu2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:50:28 -0500 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:34887 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750970AbXKJJu1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:50:27 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1591F08735; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:50:25 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MZFs9Krqu62U; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:50:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [172.27.78.26]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30221F08733; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:50:24 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) In-Reply-To: <473495E1.3080305@obry.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pascal Obry wrote: > David Brown a =E9crit : >> It's because of the case-insensitive nature of the filesystem. The = kernel >> contains both an xt_connmark.h and an xt_CONNMARK.h file, that are >> different. But only one exists on Windows, so git sees the first on= e it >> wrote as having been modified. >=20 > Probably not something for the list... but if you ask me this is just > bad practice anyway. Casing has no semantic, it is nonsense to have t= wo > files with the same name with different casing! >=20 You're right, it's not something for this list. Try arguing your case a= t the linux kernel mailing list. --=20 Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231