Re: git: cannot rename foo to Foo on a case-insensitive filesystem (e.g. on Windows)

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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> Personally, I don't like HFS+ much at all, but your statement that Mac 
>> OS X "doesn't even have a case sensitive filesystem" is false.
>
> It is right that they support it.  But since the _default_ is case 
> insensitive (but only as long as it is not _reporting_ file names), it is 
> _as bad_ as "doesn't even have a case sensitive filesystem".  No sophistry 
> helps here.

Linux has case insensitive file systems as well: vfat, smbfs and
possibly some others.  If one can manage to come up with a way that
deals gracefully with it (and not conditioned on the operating
system), that's not just a boon on Windows.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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