> -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Beller <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 1:59 PM > To: Ben Peart <[email protected]> > Cc: git <[email protected]>; Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] handle lower case drive letters on Windows > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:54 AM Ben Peart <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Teach test-drop-caches to handle lower case drive letters on Windows. > > As someone not quite familiar with Windows (and using Git there), > is this addressing a user visible issue, or a developer visible issue? > (It looks to me as the latter as it touches test code). In which way > does it improve the life of a developer? >
It is a developer visible issue. On Windows, file names (including drive letters) are case insensitive. This patch improves the life of a Windows developer by making drive letters case insensitive for the test-drop-caches test application as well. Without this patch "test-drop-caches e" will fail with an error "Invalid drive letter 'e'" instead of succeeding as expected. > Thanks, > Stefan
