Re: compromise for case-challenged file systems?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 17/05/15 00:34, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I noticed that since the addition of the file,
> tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh, one can no longer
> clone coreutils onto a case-challenged file system,
> because there is also a file in that directory whose
> name differs only in the case of the "f":
> 
>   tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh
> 
> What do you think about fixing this?
> Since it's easy to avoid, you may want to write a
> syntax-check rule using something like this:
> 
>   $ git ls-files|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'|sort|uniq -d
>   tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh
> 
> Actual consequence?
> When I clone onto an hfs file system (OS/X), the initial
> is shown as unclean, with tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh
> being shown as modified (with the differences to transform
> it to the contents of the lower-case-named file).

Yes it's definitely worth avoiding that issue.
Proposed patch attached.

thanks!
Pádraig

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