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Ben Knoble" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] doc: add a explanation of Git's data model In-Reply-To: <353916d3-c977-40e5-9251-1535b226cc9e@app.fastmail.com> (Julia Evans's message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:20:30 -0400") References: <353916d3-c977-40e5-9251-1535b226cc9e@app.fastmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:17 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Julia Evans" writes: > I'm still not clear on why you think we shouldn't mention that how > references behave depends on which filesystem you're using. Simply because the main purpose of this document is to give a data-model. A case insensitive filesystem limiting the set of names you can use depending on what other names are in use is a quality of implementation issue, which I view as a mere distraction when we are giving overview at the conceptual level. Thanks.