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Warning: If you use git+Dropbox on a Mac (or have one joined anywhere), keep in mind that most Macs have case-insensitive filesystems. What this means is check
by newman314 15y ago
Warning: If you use git+Dropbox on a Mac (or have one joined anywhere), keep in mind that most Macs have case-insensitive filesystems.
What this means is checking out a git repo like the Linux kernel will not work. This drove me a little nuts until I figured out what happened (I'm an old school Unix guy so did not realize that HFS+ is case insensitive).
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoIIRC you can reformat as case-sensitive.
- tonyarkles 15y agoIt's always unfortunate that I realize this after there's already a pile of stuff on the machine. It usually goes something like this: - get burned by case insensitive filesystem - swear that next time I'll reformat it to be case sensitive [much time passes] - get new machine [much more time passes] - get burned by case insensitive filesystem - repeat
- monopede 15y agoOr create a (resizeable) image that is case-sensitive. Not sure what the performance overheads of that will be, though.
- frunke 15y agoThat's probably a better option in any case as some apps can be erratic on a case-sensitive file system (or at least they were back when I last tried it around 10.2~10.3).
- Groxx 15y agoIn the past, I've seen a few mentions of bugs / non-running programs when run on a case-sensitive HFS+. Not sure if that's true any more, but changing a default-case-insensitive system to a case-sensitive one isn't usually a problem-free operation.
- PJones 15y agoLast time I formatted my drive as case sensitive I ran into issues with Adobe's CS5 apps and Steam. There could be more, but I reformatted it again shortly afterwards.