Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

From: Adrien Beau <adrienbeau@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2005, 15:37 UTC
Message-ID: <94fc236b0511150737x7f0977ffmf9eb4a875715e7a0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511151518210.23020@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

> Well, I can see no good reason for symrefs, except for backwards
> compatibility! Modern systems do support symlinks, you know?

What about less modern systems? I like to have tools that work on those, too.

> Let´s face it. The main target for git is not Windows users.

Yes, but they are a worthy secondary target.

> If we really want to support all idiocies of all possible ones,

I don't think we want that, but I don't think the symref vs. symlink issue is an idiocy either.

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> how about this one:
>
> If I clone a repository to a USB stick on cygwin, and try to access it
> from my iBook, it does not work, because for *backward compatibility*
> reasons, files fitting the 8.3 format are stored in UPPER CASE.
>
> So, I would like to have support for UPPER CASE files in .git, please? And
> since I cannot do my own testing, please could you force everybody´s git
> to write OBJECTS and MASTER in UPPER CASE?

Long and mixed-case filenames are supported almost universally. Why aren't you using FAT32 on your USB key? Even that decade-old filesystem supports them.