Re: git and file name case on cygwin

From: Niklas Höglund <nhoglund@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2007, 13:59 UTC
Message-ID: <1170597557.7538.12.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702031733190.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 17:17 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Here's a clue:
> 
> 	include/linux/netfilter/xt_dscp.h
> 	include/linux/netfilter/xt_DSCP.h
> 
> are both tracked files..

Oh. It never struck me that people would use the "same" name for two different things. I thought it was something more subtle, like I file being renamed from one case to another. I should have looked a bit more carefully.

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 17:38 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > Are there plans to "fix" the confusion by renaming them to
> > reduce chances of name clashes on such suboptimal filesystems?
> 
> I don't think so. Nobody really does development on such broken 
> filesystems, and I kind of have this nagging suspicion that Niklas noticed 
> just because he wanted to test git, not because he really wanted to do 
> Linux development under Windows ;)

It's true that I don't intend to do any Linux development on a Windows system. I'd use a Linux system or a Linux VM for that. I do on occasion have a look through the Linux source code when I'm struggling with some badly documented hardware, but I could use a tarball for that. (I guess the netfilter code would still get mangled, but I can live with that.)

Niklas