From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:40:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801120139170.8333@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iif28i2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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