Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems

Kevin Ballard [off-list ref] writes:

On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

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