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As a ultra-simple example: with a case-sensitive file system I can have two directories, "documents" and "Documents". Which one are my documents in? Half in one
by forgottenpass 12y ago
As a ultra-simple example: with a case-sensitive file system I can have two directories, "documents" and "Documents". Which one are my documents in? Half in one, half in the other, probably.
This is a source of confusion, but filesystem convention is not the place to solve it because it can't solve it. I can still have three directories for bug #12 "ticket_12", "ticket12" and "ticket 12" Which one is my investigation in? Is documentation in "doc" or "docs"? etc...
- thomasahle 12y agoSpaces in filenames are terrible as well. Is it "Documents" or "Documents "? Perhaps one could calculate some sort of visual distance between filenames and not allow any two in the same folder, if their distance were less than some constant.
- fidotron 12y agoYou could tokenise them, and then compare the resulting list of tokens.