Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 14:14 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161512450.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <26554F2D-B44D-4691-A696-9B6924E08599@zib.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> 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.

So I think this will always be something Windows users would wish to impose onto others, while Linux users would always refuse.

Ciao, Dscho