patchDistinguish branches by more than case in tests.

The renaming without config test changed a branch from q to Q, which fails on non-case sensitive file systems. Change the test to use q and q2. ---

Notably, HFS+ is not case sensitive. IIRC there are others. This isn't a flaw of git, just a bad choice of branch names for certain systems.

 t/t3200-branch.sh |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

Sigh.

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?).

The worst of all this is that I have to be careful not to break things on such a system, and take a patch like this (admittedly, you did the real fixing, so that is less work for me, but still...).

And puzzlingly enough, I am not paid to do this ;-).

Thanks for the patch.  Will apply.

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

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

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

Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same word, right?".

On Friday, April 6, 2007 at 16:02:59 (-0700) Randal L. Schwartz writes:

Is "bill" and "Bill" the same word?

Bill

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

And "polish" and "Polish" is the same word, right? AnD i cOuLD wRite THInGs LiKE thiS, aND it WouLd bE eaSiER tO REad, RiGHt?

Case *does* matter. Anybody who claims otherwise is a total idiot.

And no, e e cummings is not an example to the contrary. Quite the reverse. Even people like e e cummings (known for his lack of capitalization) actually became well-known exactly because he made capitalization *matter* by flouting the rules (the same way he also flouted the rules of grammar and other word usage!).

		Linus

On Friday, April 6, 2007 at 16:41:08 (-0700) Linus Torvalds writes:

And, just as you rearrange r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r to get grasshopper, you would get new filesytems that idiotically, and just as arbitrarily, considered them the same.

Bill

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Or for a more humorous case that bit me until I reformatted my MacOSX machine as case-sensitive HFS+, how xt_conntrack.h and xt_CONNTRACK.h are the same file...

Really makes looking at git-diff output interesting.

Cheers,
	Kyle