Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> Are there plans to "fix" the confusion by renaming them to >> reduce chances of name clashes on such suboptimal filesystems? > > I don't think so. Nobody really does development on such broken > filesystems, and I kind of have this nagging suspicion that Niklas noticed > just because he wanted to test git, not because he really wanted to do > Linux development under Windows ;) > > That said, it might not be horrible to do. Doing > > git ls-files | sort -f | uniq -ic | grep -v ' 1 ' > > shows that we only have 19 names so afflicted, and they're all in > netfilter. Maybe the netfilter people could be convinced not to do it. > > But really, do we actually expect anybody to really *care*? Not really, I was just fishing for an ammunition to use in a different thread, concerning another filesystem whose readdir() returns something different from what the user fed creat() to create the file. - 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