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Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows)

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Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date
Sep 2, 2007, 00:20 UTC
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On 29 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds verbalised:
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> And if you use that algorithm, them 'ß' and 'ss' are equal in a 
> case-insensitive filesystem. 
>
> Does anybody do that? I don't know. But I sure as hell wouldn't be 
> surprised.

Oh yes, they do. Guess what I spent the last month fixing in a huge heap of proprietary software. Of course the problem is not truly fixable because of the potentially unbounded set of context-dependent stuff such as `Masse'.

(I hear some people got a summer holiday...)
Previous: Andreas Ericsson
Message 5 of 5 in “Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows)”
  1. Wincent ColaiutaAug 29, 2007
  2. David KastrupAug 29, 2007
  3. Wincent ColaiutaAug 29, 2007
  4. Andreas EricssonAug 29, 2007
  5. NixSep 2, 2007

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