From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: [RFC] File system difference handling in git Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:21:03 +0100 Message-ID: <85ve5l393k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <3f4fd2640801220121w60cb9a69u8519a7ceb81d3414@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Reece Dunn , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 22 21:22:16 2008 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 1JHPdJ-0002Db-NQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:22:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752699AbYAVUVY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:21:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752507AbYAVUVY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:21:24 -0500 Received: from mail-in-17.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.57]:43027 "EHLO mail-in-17.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752517AbYAVUVX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:21:23 -0500 Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BFBB2BB711; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:21:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76192DAE65; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:21:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-036-024.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.36.24]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A105F2BB702; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:21:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9919B1C3D4E5; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:21:03 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:56:28 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92/5521/Tue Jan 22 15:55:56 2008 on mail-in-08.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds 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