From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: PJ Weisberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true' Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1332370222-5123-1-git-send-email-pj@irregularexpressions.net> <7vmx79zeui.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 22 21:41:03 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SAooe-00031U-Ni for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:41:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759841Ab2CVUkx (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:40:53 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:65047 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759778Ab2CVUkv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:40:51 -0400 Received: by wibhr17 with SMTP id hr17so1136098wib.1 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+J2+Lzo1lev+DHA8ZuwqJRk8UzwP557mbbnSisbgiZc=; b=QOu5fnWnOaZVsSZWc6SH2X5s0lJqbtsYD+EQGBsCUthALb9/yMjbwjrQvEvCmYzYfx J/PMVXPHz2gdSg85eQ4FulYo9s2rDpuakTLOBj76CxnFReQaN151DS204dYLO3UoLNbf bowZKZ+icUkXIU3fo8gLDMSYNKr4dIZdtPqH94uwdwb4uH+tbmBFt1x9v1JNTdF5fUO6 3WwxH0RzxHIO/281XVUeBlMCqJ649t5HT2miGFS+hiq3b2l7uxmVwoSb2nMd7EIrUNt4 sWOFNrKK8Spamc4eYoebODHmwGcYNmxQ7sN+uXaHxBFPazcwPTviCtc16yCTpIqJjWbc EyVA== Received: by 10.180.104.230 with SMTP id gh6mr557908wib.22.1332448850426; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.160.1 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vmx79zeui.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: EaYzf6YuF2av-gPGfu5ItvO4GH4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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.