From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:08:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8viswdho.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsNXT=YEida53nV7kj6a3cw2GibYJab4n2PucNO6inUR3HPRQ@mail.gmail.com> (PJ Weisberg's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:50 -0700")
PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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.
Exactly.
That is why we avoid describing what happens when you set it on a case
sensitive filesystem, to leave the door open for such a cleverness.
It may still be a mistake in the manual that we did not explicitly say
that setting core.ignorecase on a case sensitive system will give you an
undefined behaviour.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-21 22:50 [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true' Peter J. Weisberg
2012-03-21 23:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 20:40 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-03-22 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-03-23 10:20 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-23 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-23 18:48 ` Jeff King
2012-03-23 18:57 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 6:49 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-22 11:25 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 14:12 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 17:37 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 19:07 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 20:00 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 20:53 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 20:55 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-03-22 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 23:00 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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