[adding gnulib] On 05/17/2015 03:55 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 17/05/15 00:34, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I noticed that since the addition of the file, >> tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh, one can no longer >> clone coreutils onto a case-challenged file system, >> because there is also a file in that directory whose >> name differs only in the case of the "f": >> >> tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh >> >> What do you think about fixing this? >> Since it's easy to avoid, you may want to write a >> syntax-check rule using something like this: >> >> $ git ls-files|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'|sort|uniq -d >> tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh >> >> Actual consequence? >> When I clone onto an hfs file system (OS/X), the initial >> is shown as unclean, with tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh >> being shown as modified (with the differences to transform >> it to the contents of the lower-case-named file). > > Yes it's definitely worth avoiding that issue. > Proposed patch attached.
In fact, I think such a patch would be good in gnulib's maint.mk for all projects to benefit from, and that it could additionally check for other problematic characters such as ':' which cannot be cloned onto FAT systems, or even that file names within the project do not exceed the 99-byte limit of older tar archive constraints. That is, ensuring that all file names within a project are portable is a good goal for making the project more accessible. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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