On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:Fuck me with a spoon. Why the hell cannot people see that "equivalent" and "same" are two totally different meanings. .. and this is relevant how? They are different strings. Not the same. Equivalence doesn't matter. Equivalence is *evil*. Equivalence is what gives us case-insensitive filesystems ("because the names are equivalent"). Filesystems don't *want* equivalence. They want a much stronger exactness guarantee. Exactly because sometimes the differences matter. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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