From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:51 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040609173532.1C7F.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040611103511.5F7F.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <6480-Tue29Jun2004070614+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <20040629071814.GA23067@fencepost> <2914-Tue29Jun2004211236+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <9743-Wed30Jun2004062547+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088571411 29127 80.91.224.253 (30 Jun 2004 04:56:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmbarranquero@wke.es, Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 30 06:56:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfX9H-0006ob-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:56:43 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfX9G-0000X4-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:56:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfXAx-0002yI-3X for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:58:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BfX7w-0007kt-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BfX7q-0007g4-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfX7q-0007ci-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.32.8.202] (helo=TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BfWxE-0000SI-9u; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp (mailgate54.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.193]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id i5U4hxY14037; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:59 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id i5U4hx102358; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:59 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from edtmg03.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.26.16.203]) by mailsv5.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id i5U4hwU21694; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:58 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edtmg03.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5U4hqCK001097; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mctpc71 (mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp [10.30.118.121]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.8/EDcg v2.01-mc/1046780839) with ESMTP id i5U4hpIm000009; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:51 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mctpc71 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 476B2441; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:43:51 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <9743-Wed30Jun2004062547+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:25:47 +0200") Original-Lines: 17 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25317 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25317 "Eli Zaretskii" 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]