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I totally get this. A very long time ago I was trying to debug a flash website that had been created on a case insensitive Mac or Linux and was breaking on Lin

• smitelli 2y ago
  Not that long ago I was tasked with cleaning up a Git repo, created on a case-sensitive Mac, that had multiple files with names that collided when checked out on a case-insensitive Mac. That ordeal made me want to hang up my keyboard, move to the country, and spend the rest of my days fixing power lawn equipment.
  • mschuster91 2y ago
    yuck, I had to deal with something similar once, made double fun by the code being a hot mess of JavaScript dung... original dev was on Windows, new one was on Mac and let's just say it was "fun" tracing through all the upper/lowercase nonsense that wasn't consistent anywhere. PHP can fall into similar traps and I think Java as well...
  • lern_too_spel 2y ago
    "It just works."™
• qingcharles 2y ago
  I hit this a couple of days ago. I deployed a Sqlite DB from Windows named Orders.db. Code ran fine on Windows. All the code refers to it with a capital. On Linux it passed the "file exists" check and then borked trying to open it. I renamed it to orders.db and everything was OK in the world again.