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From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:03:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080112150324.GF2963@dpotapov.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:43:35PM -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> 
> Fair enough, though I believe OS X has a good reason, namely it's an  
> OS designed for regular users rather than servers or programmers. Case- 
> sensitivity would confuse my mother.

Many of *nix servers are running web-services and samba servers, yet most
users are even not aware of whether they dealing with case-sensitive file
system or not, let alone being confused by that. This is because most
regular users will type the name only once when they create a new file
and then just click on this name. So case-sensitive file systems can
really confuse only some badly written applications...

Dmitry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 20:19 Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 21:09 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 21:19   ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 21:25   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-11 21:59   ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-11 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-11 21:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-11 21:44   ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 22:05     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-11 22:08     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-11 23:10       ` David Kastrup
2008-01-11 23:12         ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-11 23:26       ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-12  0:03         ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12  0:15           ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-12  0:25             ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12  0:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  0:40                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-12  1:16                   ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12  1:30                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  1:43                       ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-12 12:07                         ` David Kastrup
2008-01-12 15:03                         ` Dmitry Potapov [this message]
2008-01-12  0:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  0:57           ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-12 16:33             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-12 14:46       ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-01-12 18:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-12 19:29           ` Dmitry Potapov

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