Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir

[Nathaniel Smith]

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.  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

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