Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: May 8, 2006, 01:44 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605080344480.14008@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Mon, 8 May 2006 03:45:47 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 7 May 2006, sean wrote:
> 
> > Not worth it.  Branch names should be alnums and imho should be
> > case sensitive too.
> 
> Why should they be case sensitive? So you have a branch "origin" and 
> another named "Origin" and get totally confused?
>

I don't care either way, just think we should be consistent. Currently we support case sensitivity in branch names and let people get totally confused. But in practice people don't really get confused by the linux filesystem which is case sensitive.

Sean