feature or bug?

[Jens Alfke]

On 2 Jan '08, at 8:37 PM, Mark A. Flacy wrote:

> I cannot fathom why a case-preserving files system is still in use  
> in the 21st century.

I can, but such an argument is off-topic here. (Hint: it has to do  
with the sorts of expectations non-geeks have about the way names  
work, and the consequent adjustments made by user-friendly OS's.)

In any case, as Patrick pointed out, the Mac OS defaults to a case- 
insensitive filesystem too (though it's possible to install a case- 
sensitive one), so I think it's valuable for Mercurial to accommodate  
the way every mainstream OS other than Linux* works.

--Jens

*OK, and BSD and Solaris