From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>,
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows)
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:20:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqcluddn.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708281555580.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:01:45 -0700 (PDT)")
On 29 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds verbalised:
> And if you use that algorithm, them 'ß' and 'ss' are equal in a
> case-insensitive filesystem.
>
> Does anybody do that? I don't know. But I sure as hell wouldn't be
> surprised.
Oh yes, they do. Guess what I spent the last month fixing in a huge heap
of proprietary software. Of course the problem is not truly fixable
because of the potentially unbounded set of context-dependent stuff such
as `Masse'.
(I hear some people got a summer holiday...)
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2007-08-29 9:31 ` git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows) Wincent Colaiuta
2007-08-29 9:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-29 10:04 ` Wincent Colaiuta
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2007-09-02 0:20 ` Nix [this message]
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