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Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 12, 2008, 00:40 UTC
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Hi,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there a reason for this? It seems like it would be trivial to end 
> > up with misdiagnosed "untracked" files when using any language other 
> > than English given this behaviuor.
> 
> No.  The assumption of the code has always been that sane filesystems 
> would return from readdir() the names you gave from creat().

We do not really have to rehash that whole discussion for the Nth time, do we?

Ciao, Dscho

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  2. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  3. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  5. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  8. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  11. David KastrupJan 11, 2008
  12. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  13. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  14. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  16. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
  19. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  21. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  22. David KastrupJan 12, 2008
  23. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  25. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  26. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
  27. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008
  28. Linus TorvaldsJan 12, 2008
  29. Dmitry PotapovJan 12, 2008

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