Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall

[Andreas Schwab]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:18:14 -0400
>> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 07:06:14AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > >    precious ^([A-Z0-9].*|tsang-.*|quick-.*)\.el$
>> > 
>> > I hope this doesn't give trouble on case-insensitive file systems.
>> 
>> It shouldn't -- the matching is done by an application program, not the
>> filesystem.
>
> Sorry, I don't follow: under a case-insensitive filesystem, you might
> get array30.el instead of ARRAY30.el, in which case you're toast,
> right?

But it should work on a case-preserving filesystem, which at least VFAT,
NTFS and HFS[+] are.

Andreas.

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