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Re: [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.

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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
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Apr 6, 2007, 23:02 UTC
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>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

Linus> People who do it tend to universally do it because they haven't thought Linus> it through, and are supporting some older behaviour. And in the process Linus> they make their filesystem less reliable *and* slower.

Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same word, right?".

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Message 4 of 8 in “Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.”
  1. Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.Brian Gernhardt, Apr 6, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2007
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 6, 2007
  4. Randal L. SchwartzApr 6, 2007
  5. Bill LearApr 6, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 6, 2007
  7. Bill LearApr 6, 2007
  8. Kyle McMartinApr 7, 2007

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