From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFD: Handling case-colliding filenames on case-insensitive filesystems
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:17:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq62sa36ik.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=MyqXYi=zNZ+MFcUW2p-_icwg0m_aMQpVioT8J@mail.gmail.com> (Jay Soffian's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:07:35 -0500")
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
> The checkout can't be compiled correctly, so what's the point of even
> allowing it?
There's at least one: allow the user to fix it.
I'm not a user of case-insensitive filesystem, but I guess it must be
terribly frustrating for a user to have the tool say "your repo is so
broken that I'm not even going to show you what's it in".
Now, it doesn't solve the problem of people having case-colliding
filenames on purpose ...
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-23 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 17:11 RFD: Handling case-colliding filenames on case-insensitive filesystems Johan Herland
2011-02-23 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-23 19:01 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-02-23 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-24 0:58 ` Johan Herland
2011-02-24 1:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-24 8:50 ` Johan Herland
2011-02-23 19:07 ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-23 19:17 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2011-02-23 22:52 ` Marc Branchaud
2011-02-23 23:09 ` Greg Troxel
2011-02-24 0:30 ` Johan Herland
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