From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nix 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 Message-ID: <87bqcluddn.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> References: <3f4fd2640708280117k3f1cd03el676a87084a83480f@mail.gmail.com> <46D3ED4E.6030606@op5.se> <3f4fd2640708280317o2cee8ae9j28a92f39d8e6a583@mail.gmail.com> <85mywbb7p7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Kastrup , Reece Dunn , Andreas Ericsson , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 02 02:20:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IRdCr-0002yL-Gr for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:20:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932547AbXIBAUj convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 20:20:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932545AbXIBAUj (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 20:20:39 -0400 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:55641 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932353AbXIBAUi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 20:20:38 -0400 Received: from esperi.org.uk (nix@hades.wkstn.nix [192.168.14.18]) by mail.esperi.org.uk (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l820KLXS015349; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 01:20:21 +0100 Received: (from nix@localhost) by esperi.org.uk (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.11/Submit) id l820KK27015115; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 01:20:20 +0100 Emacs: if it payed rent for disk space, you'd be rich. In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:01:45 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b28 (linux) X-DCC-INFN-TO-Metrics: hades 1233; Body=5 Fuz1=5 Fuz2=5 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 29 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds verbalised: > And if you use that algorithm, them '=DF' and 'ss' are equal in a=20 > case-insensitive filesystem.=20 > > Does anybody do that? I don't know. But I sure as hell wouldn't be=20 > surprised. Oh yes, they do. Guess what I spent the last month fixing in a huge hea= p of proprietary software. Of course the problem is not truly fixable because of the potentially unbounded set of context-dependent stuff suc= h as `Masse'. (I hear some people got a summer holiday...)