Re: Good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?

[Alexander A. Klimov]

Am 14.06.20 um 22:34 schrieb Stefano Brivio:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:41:17 +0200
> "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello there!
> >
> > At the moment one can't checkout a clean working directory w/o any
> > changed files on a case-insensitive FS as the following file names have
> > lower-case duplicates:
>
> They are not duplicates: matching extensions are lowercase, target
> extensions are uppercase. DSCP is the extension to set DSCP bits, dscp
> is the extension to match on those packet bits.
>
> > â  linux git:(96144c58abe7) git ls-files |sort -f |uniq -id
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_DSCP.h
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_MARK.h
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.h
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.h
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_ECN.h
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TTL.h
> > include/uapi/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_HL.h
> > net/netfilter/xt_DSCP.c
> > net/netfilter/xt_HL.c
> > net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c
> > net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
> > tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/Z6.0+pooncelock+poonceLock+pombonce.litmus
> > â  linux git:(96144c58abe7)
> >
> > Also even on a case-sensitive one VIm seems to have trouble with editing
> > both case-insensitively equal files at the same time.
>
> ...what trouble exactly?
vi -O2 include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h 
include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h

... opens the first file two times.

> > I was going to make a patch renaming the respective duplicates, but I'm
> > not sure:
> >
> > *Is it a good idea to rename files in include/uapi/ ?*
>
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to even use git on a case-insensitive
> filesystem. I'm curious, what is your use case?
My MacOS workstation. Now as I discovered the problem I've created a r/w 
image with a c/s FS, but the need of that for a clean `git checkout .' 
is IMAO pretty silly.

Don't worry, I run Linux, but only on my servers.

Also this issue should also apply to M$ Windows workstations. By the way 
at work I actually use Git on Windows if needed and it also just works. 
However the software I work on doesn't have this issue.

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