From: David Kastrup Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:47 GMT Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems Message-ID: <85ejcn5jsc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org> Kevin Ballard writes: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >>> Apparently so. By Junio's definition, HFS+ is not a sane filesystem, >>> and as git grows more popular with OS X users, this issue is going to >>> crop up more frequently. >> >> It's not "my" definition, but you asked the reason and I gave >> the answer. We can close this issue of "is HFS+ sane" now. >> HFS+ is insane, period. And as Linus said, you cannot forgive >> its insanity using the historical baggage argument, like MS-DOS. > > Fair enough, though I believe OS X has a good reason, namely it's an > OS designed for regular users rather than servers or > programmers. Case-sensitivity would confuse my mother. If case-sensitivity would be the primary cause of confusion in mother-computer interoperation, you have a remarkable mother. "Type things the same way and they work the same" is a simple enough rule. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum