Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If this is really just a platform-specific hack, can we use platform- > specific code to do the normalization? Unfortunately, I do not think this can be a platform-specific hack. If a project wants to be usable on both sane and insane filesystems, people on platforms whose filesystems treat "foo" and "Foo" as two distinct pathnames (and "Ma<UMLAUT>rchen" and "M<A-with-UMLAUT>rchen" as two distinct ones) need to be prevented from creating both in their tree objects at the same time. Once you create two pathnames xt_connmark.c and xt_CONNMARK.c in the same tree object in your project, people on case insensitive filesystems cannot work with your project (you cannot check out the kernel source tree and work on it on vfat). This is exactly the same logic as making autocrlf=safe (or at least 'input') the default for projects that people need to work both on UNIX and Windows, which Steffen Prohaska has been adovocating in another thread. - 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
