benjojoThis MacOS (APFS?) quirk was mentioned at the pub last night, and I still cannot believe this actually works when I tried it myself
niconiconi@[email protected] It's said that not all macOS apps work properly if filesystem case insensitivity is turned off, otherwise I'd like to when formatting my disk.
Russ Garrett@niconiconi @benjojo I ran a case sensitive FS for a few years when there was talk of Apple switching to case-sensitive. 99% of stuff worked fine, but the remaining 1% was a complete nightmare.
Dr. Sobek@russss @niconiconi @benjojo Ohh, is there some clearer documentation about what broke and what sort of curse ?
@Sobex @niconiconi mostly just Mac-specific apps which were never tested on case-sensitive filesystems. Sometimes it was obvious what the problem was, but I have vague memories of some really obscure stuff.
I couldn't really report any software bugs without first trying to work out if it was being caused by case-sensitivity...
The OS itself worked fine though, as did any apps which targeted Linux.
Jernej Simončič �@russss @Sobex @niconiconi Interesting. I ran Windows with filesystem in case-sensitive mode decades ago when I used SFU (Services for Unix), and never encountered any problems (only when having files that only differed in case, it was a bit random which file would be opened by some native Win32 programs).
Xdej@russss
I once had to work on files with someone on case insensitive windows, using git. A few months later, a bug revealed that creating the git repo on windows resulted in implicit `git config core.ignorecase`. I am on Linux.
@niconiconi @benjojo
I once had to work on files with someone on case insensitive windows, using git. A few months later, a bug revealed that creating the git repo on windows resulted in implicit `git config core.ignorecase`. I am on Linux.
@niconiconi @benjojo