On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:37:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Note: in all of the above, I assume that people care more about just plain > UTF characters (and the insane NFD form OS X uses) than about worrying > about the _really_ subtle issues of case-independence. Those are a major > pain, but they will need even more "internal" support, because there > simply isn't any sane wrapping method. Stupid question --- if we get something that works for Windows and MacOS X, is there any reason why we need to solve the general problem of case-insentive filesystems? It's really backwards compatibility with Legacy OS's that most important, right? Are there any other systems other than Windows and Mac OS X which (a) perpetrate case insensitivity on application programmers, and (b) which current or future git users are likely to care about? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html