Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:50:44 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: des@des.no Cc: stas@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, ed@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187332 - head/tools/regression/usr.bin/jot Message-ID: <20090117.155044.43037614.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <86ab9q14dl.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <200901161547.n0GFlZ4C012008@svn.freebsd.org> <20090117142021.92d5a40b.stas@FreeBSD.org> <86ab9q14dl.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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In message: <86ab9q14dl.fsf@ds4.des.no> Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: : Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> writes: : > Was this discussed somewhere? I don't understand why we should : > restrict our filesystem naming because of limitation of auxilary : > filesystems. : = : Yes. We've already renamed files that had : in their names. : = : This is not just for Windows's sake, BTW: Apple's HFS and MacOS Exten= ded : file systems are case retentive but not case sensitive. : = : We should restrict filenames in the source tree (and in the installed= : system) to the POSIX portable filename character set ([A-Za-z0-9._-] = in : the C/POSIX locale) and avoid gratuitously long names. Yea, this is settled ground. With the move from cvs -> svn, it is now possible to checkout a tree on the Mac again. Before, contrib/files had a file names 'cvs'... Warner
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