From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Johannes Sixt" <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Brandon Casey" <drafnel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:09:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4ntgwdft.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsNXTkEDr_bg3tCo-OOOzAe_5AVgoGV_9b0b3GOREzPE4Pg_Q@mail.gmail.com> (PJ Weisberg's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:55:02 -0700")
PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:
> 2012/3/22 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> writes:
>>
>>> Even this updated text does not say _what_ happens when
>>> core.ignorecase is set on a case-insensitive filesystem.
>>
>> That was very much on purpose. We tell users not to do that, because it is
>> calling for an undefined behaviour. And leaving it undefined gives us a
>> wiggle room to later do something better if we choose to.
>
> Where do you tell users not to do that? Nothing on the man page
> actually says that the behavior is undefined,...
Read the messages in the thread you are responding to. It is a discussion
about how we update the documentation to say it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-21 22:50 [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true' Peter J. Weisberg
2012-03-21 23:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 20:40 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-03-22 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-23 10:20 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-23 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-23 18:48 ` Jeff King
2012-03-23 18:57 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 6:49 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-22 11:25 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 14:12 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 17:37 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 19:07 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 20:00 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 20:53 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 20:55 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-03-22 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-03-22 23:00 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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