From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: jmbarranquero@wke.es, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buok6xpejug.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9743-Wed30Jun2004062547+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:25:47 +0200")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
So don't use tools that screw up your filenames -- or if you must do so,
at least understand that it _will_ confuse any source-control system
you happen to be using.
-Miles
--
`Suppose Korea goes to the World Cup final against Japan and wins,' Moon said.
`All the past could be forgiven.' [NYT]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 4:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-09 8:28 Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-09 9:08 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-09 9:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-09 12:40 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-09 13:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-09 15:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-10 1:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-10 8:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-10 8:12 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-10 8:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-11 2:44 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-11 8:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-11 8:51 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-11 9:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-28 23:51 ` Stefan
2004-06-29 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-29 5:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-29 7:18 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-29 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-29 22:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-06-30 4:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-30 4:43 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-06-30 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-30 14:13 ` Stefan
2004-06-11 23:49 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 3:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 4:44 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 12:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 13:06 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 13:11 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 14:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 13:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 14:19 ` Jason Rumney
2004-06-12 14:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-12 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-12 22:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-12 22:54 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-12 23:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-06-09 10:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-09 12:47 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-09 13:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
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