Re: [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Apr 6, 2007, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704061502000.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ispjhtx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 
> I always wonder why people pay money to buy case insensitive
> filesystems (MacOS is not free, is it?).
> 
> More mysterious is that there apparently are peole who are paid
> to produce such systems (Apple has paid employees to work on
> MacOS, doesn't it?).

It's doubly strange, because:
 - it's basically impossible to do well
 - even *trying* to do it introduces other (even subtler) problems, like 
   locale-dependencies and trying to force some "canonical" encoding.

People who do it tend to universally do it because they haven't thought it through, and are supporting some older behaviour. And in the process they make their filesystem less reliable *and* slower.

		Linus