Re: git and file name case on cygwin

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Feb 4, 2007, 15:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20070204150131.GA15726@uranus.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702031733190.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:38:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > Are there plans to "fix" the confusion by renaming them to
> > reduce chances of name clashes on such suboptimal filesystems?
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> 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 ;)

At my present work we do all development under Windows and this is what we have used since day one. Shifting the underlying OS to Linux last year should not and did not trigger a development environment revolution (read: change to Linux).

But it would still be preferable to actually build the Linux kernel on Windows so there is no need to do a remote build for part of the system and the rest on the Windows host. Or in other words to make the kernel build able on Windows does not imply the desire to actually do kernel development on Windows.

Sam