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Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir
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Petr Ovtchenkov |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir |
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Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:03:34 +0300 |
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On Friday 17 March 2006 11:35, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:16:14AM +0300, Petr Ovtchenkov wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 March 2006 01:13, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:22:11PM +0100, Jon Bright wrote:
> > > > At least for Win32, this isn't an issue. It's not going to try and
> > > > execute the directory. I don't know about ancient MacOS filesystems or
> > > > VMS. Richard?
> > >
> > > For a concrete example, on modern MacOS filesystems (i.e., current OS
> > > X default install), this would mean that you could not put ~/bin under
> > > version control.
> >
> > Are you sure? At least fs on MacOS X is case-sensitive.
>
> On the one I normally use in the lab...
>
> panguipulli:~/foo njs$ uname -a
> Darwin panguipulli.ucsd.edu 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30
> 20:11:17 PST 2005;
> root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
> panguipulli:~/foo njs$ ls -li
> panguipulli:~/foo njs$ echo hi > BLAH
> panguipulli:~/foo njs$ ls -li
> total 8
> 1295097 -rw-r--r-- 1 njs njs 3 17 Mar 00:34 BLAH
> panguipulli:~/foo njs$ ls -li blah bLaH BLAH
> 1295097 -rw-r--r-- 1 njs njs 3 17 Mar 00:34 BLAH
> 1295097 -rw-r--r-- 1 njs njs 3 17 Mar 00:34 bLaH
> 1295097 -rw-r--r-- 1 njs njs 3 17 Mar 00:34 blah
> panguipulli:~/foo njs$ cat blah
> hi
>
> Looks pretty insensitive to me :-)
>
> (You may be thinking of the OS X server edition? I think that uses a
> case-sensitive filesystem by default.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107863
> Of course, you _can_ use a
> case-sensitive or case-insensitive filesystem with either. Even Linux
> or *BSD may have a case-insensitive filesystem, e.g. mounting a
> windows share over SMB...)
>
> -- Nathaniel
>
- Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir, (continued)
Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir, Daniel Carosone, 2006/03/15