Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir

[Petr Ovtchenkov]

On Friday 17 March 2006 11:35, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 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.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107863

> 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
>