[TxMt] Beware of creating files with names that differ only in case!

Allan Odgaard throw-away-1 at macromates.com
Fri Aug 24 16:22:23 UTC 2007


On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:

> [...]
> Your situation is slightly different, but arguably TextMate should  
> not allow the same underlying file to appear in the drawer more  
> than once.

Well, presently it allows people to add all they want to the drawer,  
so that would include adding the same file multiple times -- but in  
the future it will be file browser only.

As for identical files or not -- some file systems are case  
sensitive, making two files with different case different. TM in 1.x  
uses the path to see if two files are identical, and it does not know  
if the underlying file system is case sensitive or not. In the future  
it will use inodes, which will also handle symbolic links.




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