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Short horror story: a coworker of mine renamed a directory in the git repo from ABC to abc. All MacOS users found their repos completely broken after pulling the changes. They didn't know that Apple's crappy HFS+ filesystem was case-insensitive.

I have ~10 coworkers, and each of them wasted at least 1 hour manually fixing this problem. This is like not working for more than a day.

(I'm forced to use a Mac too, but I use an ext3 volume for repositories.)

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  • 1
    5y
    The same shit happened with me at my workplace. Which is why I don't like HFS+ filesystems
  • 2
    5y
    If it is case insensitive wtf is the matter? Does it have both ABC and abc?
  • 3
    5y
    @hell as I was the only one unaffected, I don't know exactly what happened. I just pointed out the problem and left (sad, I know, but I don't like to waste my time on MacOS)
  • 2
    5y
    @hell exactly my question. I can't think of a reason why it would stop working if it's case insensitive.
  • 1
    5y
    Wouldn't FAT32 and NTFS have the same issue then?
  • 1
    5y
    @ilPinguino one more reason to avoid them
  • 0
    5y
    @stacked Same for MacOS though :)
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