On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:19 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: >> On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: >> >>> On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpa...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davi...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone >>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem. >>>> >>>> Is this something we want to support? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to >>>> support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to >>>> avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support >>>> building NetBSD on many different platforms. >>> >>> Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ? >> >> Last time I looked there were only a handful. I’ll conduct a census and get >> a concrete enumeration of the problem… > > Last time I noticed (early last year) there were 3 files ending in a dot > and no case conflicts. Mercurial now finds just the one file ending in > a dot and no case conflicts (doing "hg init;hg add -q" at /usr/src).
Confirmed via regex, almost… Now there’s only one ending in dot: ./tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
