Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:31:57 +0200
> 
> > Sorry, I don't follow: under a case-insensitive filesystem, you might
> > get array30.el instead of ARRAY30.el, in which case you're toast,
> > right?
> 
> But it should work on a case-preserving filesystem, which at least VFAT,
> NTFS and HFS[+] are.

I was thinking about a scenario where some tool renames a file to its
lower-case variant.  On a case-insensitive system, when Emacs tries to
open 4Corner.el, it will happily find 4corner.el, so this could go
unnoticed for a long time.