[PATCH 3 of 8] Add filesystem path to dirstate.statwalk return value

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Mon May 5 18:01:30 CDT 2008


On 06.05.2008 00:15, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Also, other operating systems have been known to mangle case. One
> example is Linux, which, before the existence of VFAT, showed filenames
> on FAT systems (all uppercase on disk) in lowercase. When VFAT was
> introduced, things got interesting:

Question left is: is that relevant here?

Even more since we already agreed on doing (a) for Mercurial?

I don't think we have to fiddle out the details for what wild things
can happen in a working dir sitting on a historic 8.3 fs when using
Mercurial, given that we would already be more than happy if Mercurial
would do something non-surprising with paths on more recent folding file
systems, like, for example, NTFS for Windows.



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