Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems

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Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>> Apparently so. By Junio's definition, HFS+ is not a sane filesystem,
>>> and as git grows more popular with OS X users, this issue is going to
>>> crop up more frequently.
>>
>> It's not "my" definition, but you asked the reason and I gave
>> the answer.  We can close this issue of "is HFS+ sane" now.
>> HFS+ is insane, period.  And as Linus said, you cannot forgive
>> its insanity using the historical baggage argument, like MS-DOS.
>
> Fair enough, though I believe OS X has a good reason, namely it's an
> OS designed for regular users rather than servers or
> programmers. Case-sensitivity would confuse my mother.

If case-sensitivity would be the primary cause of confusion in
mother-computer interoperation, you have a remarkable mother.

"Type things the same way and they work the same" is a simple enough
rule.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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