From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:53:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH mz/rebase-tests] rebase topology tests: fix commit names on case-insensitive file systems
Message-ID: <CANiSa6gWkaC62U8oxo0mRc-G-m3UJJSjq8YSuywBh-omtHO=zQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <51C00C07.6080600@viscovery.net>

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>
> The recently introduced tests used uppercase letters to denote
> cherry-picks of commits having the corresponding lowercase letter names.
> The helper functions also set up tags with the names of the commits.
>
> But this constellation fails on case-insensitive file systems because
> there cannot be distinct tags with names that differ only in case.
>
> Use a less subtle convention for the names of cherry-picked commits.

Makes sense, and the patch looks good. Thanks.

>  Knowing that the tests would take their time to complete on Windows,

I'm curious just how slow it is. Are we talking minutes?