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Re: git, debian/<version> tags, dgit - namespace proposal



On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 21:10 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
[...]
> So this message is:
> 
> * A request for anyone to say if they know of a reason I shouldn't do
>   this.
[...]

Deliberately creating identifiers that differ only by case seems
gratuitously confusing.  Further, it may cause difficulties for someone
who is packaging for some other operating system and tries to clone a
dgit repository onto a case-insensitive filesystem (which git generally
does support).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein

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