From: Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:47:35 GMT
Subject: Re: file name case-sensitivity issues
Message-ID: <20060525154735.GA6119@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v7j4c4af3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Wed, May 24, 2006 00:57:04 +0200:
> I'd call that a PEBCAK.

It is not solvable there though.

> If you _know_ you are working on a case challenged filesystem, I
> think the best thing you can do is not to work on a project that
> has files in different cases on such a filesystem.

That is seldom an acceptable suggestion. Besides, how about when you
don't _know_, like when cloning onto an usb-stick mounted with
auto-detection? Will the files with case-different names just
overwrite each other?