On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote:
I had a file within a project called "distributions.py", and wanted to make a new file called "Distributions.py" to experiment with a few things.
HFS/HFS+ is traditionally a case-preserving, but case-insensitive file-system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_preservation
As of 10.4, HFS+ supports case-sensitivity. When you create a new- volume, you can enable case-sensitivity, but this is not the default. As well, my guess is that if you tried to install OS X on a case- sensitive HFS+ volume, it would break quite a few applications that simply haven't been QA'd in such a scenario.
This isn't a fault of TextMate.
FWIW, NTFS is the same way. This is likely to catch Unix-geeks by surprise since ufs and other unix-like file-systems (xfs, zfs, ext2/ ext3, reiserfs, etc) are all case-sensitive.
Feel free to fire up Disk Utility, create a disk image, then click on the Erase tab and notice the following options:
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