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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:21:00 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Dustin Sallings <address@hidden>
> On Mar 5, 2004, at 20:21, Tom Lord wrote:
> > Personally, I have a little bit of trouble taking case insentive
> > filesystems seriously.
> Turns out there are quite a few UNIX and Windows users out there with
> case insensitive filesystems
Encourage them to upgrade.
> and this particular design decision seems to do very little
> other than to break archives that are ever checked out and then
> recommitted by people who use [broken file systems].
> Does the rearrangement of the structure in this part of the design
> have any positive effects?
Yes, and they've been explained.
> It was brought up in this thread by a user
> who finds it counterintuitive. I don't believe this user is alone, but
> I wouldn't be complaining if it hasn't caused me to actually break
> archives when working on cross-platform, multi-user, distributed
> applications.
What's that you say? The sky is falling? Interesting.
Your focused on a narrow issue that will _not_ solve the interop
problems that can arise because of case insensitive file systems.
So, you are asking for a non-solution to a bogus problem.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, David Brown, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/13
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/14
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Robin Farine, 2004/03/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Robert Collins, 2004/03/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Robert Collins, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/13