From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests. Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20070406054204.GA13108@Hermes.local> <7v7ispjhtx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <86mz1lt8bg.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Brian Gernhardt , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Randal L. Schwartz" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 07 02:43:49 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 1HZy3W-0001sd-3J for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:41:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933413AbXDFXlR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:41:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933410AbXDFXlR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:41:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:38799 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933413AbXDFXlP (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:41:15 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l36NfAPD022872 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:41:10 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l36Nf9qC022792; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:41:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: <86mz1lt8bg.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.453 required=5 tests=AWL,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED,PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.119__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.177 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the > argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same > word, right?". And "polish" and "Polish" is the same word, right? AnD i cOuLD wRite THInGs LiKE thiS, aND it WouLd bE eaSiER tO REad, RiGHt? Case *does* matter. Anybody who claims otherwise is a total idiot. And no, e e cummings is not an example to the contrary. Quite the reverse. Even people like e e cummings (known for his lack of capitalization) actually became well-known exactly because he made capitalization *matter* by flouting the rules (the same way he also flouted the rules of grammar and other word usage!). Linus