From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Potapov Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:03:24 +0300 Message-ID: <20080112150324.GF2963@dpotapov.dyndns.org> References: <579DF776-4F4E-464C-88DB-B22C2EC291BD@sb.org> <200801120026.01930.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> <1973E1D5-C8CC-4979-A085-85A2C5A13E57@sb.org> <200801120115.41274.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> <191B60D7-FD89-48D8-8D48-C91645D4814D@sb.org> <7v7iif28i2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vprw7zv7s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 12 16:04:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JDhtz-0002Na-IP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:04:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759454AbYALPD0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:03:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758236AbYALPD0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:03:26 -0500 Received: from smtp03.mtu.ru ([62.5.255.50]:51978 "EHLO smtp03.mtu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757915AbYALPD0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:03:26 -0500 Received: from smtp03.mtu.ru (localhost.mtu.ru [127.0.0.1]) by smtp03.mtu.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6062218711E0; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:03:24 +0300 (MSK) Received: from dpotapov.dyndns.org (ppp85-140-170-195.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [85.140.170.195]) by smtp03.mtu.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A191871226; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:03:24 +0300 (MSK) Received: from dpotapov by dpotapov.dyndns.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JDhtM-000438-5z; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:03:24 +0300 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-DCC-STREAM-Metrics: smtp03.mtu.ru 10002; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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