From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXT=YEida53nV7kj6a3cw2GibYJab4n2PucNO6inUR3HPRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmx79zeui.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
As you've probably deduced, I simply failed to RTFM. I'm not sure
you'll gain much by changing the description on the man page, since I
thought the name 'ignorecase' was self-explanatory and barely even
looked at it. :-/
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> underlying system calls like open("foo") will *not* magically start
> returning a file descriptor opened for "FOO" if your filesystem is not
> case insensitive.
No, but magic_open("foo") might, if someone had put forth the effort
to write a function called magic_open. But the more I think about it,
the more it seems that doing everything you would need to do to make
ignorecase work the way I thought it did is almost certainly not worth
the effort.
-PJ
Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 20:41 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 [this message]
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
2012-03-22 23:00 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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