[Savannah-hackers] [support #102459] CVS checkout of savannah module is broken

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Support Request #102459, was updated on Fri 09/19/2003 at 11:47
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Category: CVS
Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Summary: CVS checkout of savannah module is broken

By: lurk
Date: Fri 09/19/2003 at 21:51
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Yep there are actually quite a few of them still in use and they are 

making new ones all the time ;-)  I really don't have a hard opinion one 

way or the other but the more I use the Mac I actually am starting to like 

it.  I don't have to always do an ls to see if I need to look at readme, 

Readme, or README.



My personal rule now is just to make sure that all my names differ on 

more than just case as a nod to portability.   



Just another couple of quick points.  Yes I could have a partition which is 

formatted UFS and would be case sensitive on my Mac but that has some 

other problems which makes it not so nice.



None of the FAT partitions are case sensitive either which may not 

matter for the most part if you don't care about windows.  However, one 

important case where it does matter is for solid state disks.  I have a 

little flash USB hard drive keychain I like to carry all my important 

projects around on and it is formatted as FAT32.  Part of the utility of 

this little bugger is that I can stick it into any computer be it Linux, Mac 

OS or windows and access my files so reformatting it to be something 

incompatible with 2/3 of the OSes I have to deal with would be foolish.  



If one is relying on case alone to prevent name collisions then you 

cannot transfer your files to just any random flash drive.



Well I guess you get the point ;-)  

 

Thanks for your help,

-Eric

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By: yeupou
Date: Fri 09/19/2003 at 17:24
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Ouach, I was not aware that non-case sensitive fs was   
still in use :)   
  
Hum, several time we have directories with this kind of  
names. But aren't you have to use a case sensitive fs like  
ext3 or whatever with MacOS X (maybe not for / but a least  
for some partitions)?  
 
  

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