Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 14:36 UTC
Message-ID: <F17B71A6-879A-4036-908E-A74433BC39ED@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161512450.25221@racer.site>

On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
>> On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> What you want would probably be all too easy with a pre-commit hook.
>>> No need to clutter the git-core with code that is usually not needed
>>> (you'd only ever activate it on Linux when other developers use
>>> Windows or MacOSX).
>>
>> Personally, I'd be very happy if git enforced the minimal consent
>> between (supported) filesystems and provided a system to guarantee  
>> that
>> I can only create tree objects that can be checked out on all
>> (supported) filesystems.
>
> This will not happen.  In the Linux kernel, there were exactly such  
> cases,
> where the filenames differed only in case.
>
> Also, some projects I checked out (notably Perl) assume that  
> Makefile is
> different from makefile.

weird Linux and Perl world, indeed.

> So I think this will always be something Windows users

and Mac users, who also need to deal with a case-preserving, but case-insensitive filesystem.

> would wish to
> impose onto others, while Linux users would always refuse.

maybe Linux kernel developers. When I work on Linux, I'd be happy if git saved me from creating directories containing Readme and readme at the same time.

	Steffen