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Re: Path conversion bug with check_case:strict
On Sep 7 14:26, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Sigh, check_case is just another invention I'd rather like to get rid of.
> > Like ntea or textmode...
>
> Well, check_case actually turns out to be very useful (at least to me),
> particularly when a tarball or a CVS repository contains two files that
> differ only in case -- I'd rather have an error in that case rather than
> have the file/directory silently overwritten. FWIW, I use it constantly
> (that's how I spotted this problem).
Isn't your scenario a good reason to give managed mounts another try,
instead of keeping check_case alive?
Corinna
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