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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] File system difference handling in git
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:21:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ve5l393k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801220829080.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:56:28 -0800 (PST)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Reece Dunn wrote:
>> 
>>   1.  File name representation
>> 
>> For Linux file systems (correct me if I am wrong here), they all store
>> the file name as-is. The question here is what happens on
>> Windows-based file systems (e.g. NTFS) that are being read on Linux?
>
> Generally, Linux tries to follow the conventions of the filesystem, so 
> it's generally case-preserving and case-sensitive (but not normalizing in 
> any way - the case sensitivity is literally a upcase lookup table, so you 
> do "upcase(c1) == upcase(c2)" for each UCS-2 character, no combining or 
> decomposition).

s/sensitiv/insensitiv/g

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-22  9:21 [RFC] File system difference handling in git Reece Dunn
2008-01-22 10:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-22 10:52   ` Reece Dunn
2008-01-22 17:44     ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-01-22 20:54     ` Jonathan del Strother
2008-01-22 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-22 20:21   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-01-22 21:32     ` Linus Torvalds

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