Google Summer of Code - Case Insensitive Filenames

Corey McClymonds galeru at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 09:41:06 CDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Cesar Izurieta <cesar at ecuarock.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Kai Blin <kai.blin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 17:21:20 Austin English wrote:
>  >
>  >  > An option yes, but it should not be the default course of action. As
>  >  > Rahyen said, a predictable order should be used, and when there are
>  >  > conflicts, pick the first in that order for presentation through the
>  >  > FUSE system. User can then rename files/delete files to get the one
>  >  > they want (or if possible, have a configuration menu to adjust chosen
>  >  > file order/allow exceptions, etc.).
>  >

Wouldn't it make the most sense to use whichever one was modified
last?  In most cases. that gives you the right response, eg. you put
in a modified executable via patch or similar, and want it to use that
version.

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