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Re: [Tools-discuss] uppercase/lowercase for 7 files on rsync.tools.ietf.org

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 28 March 2013 03:29 UTC

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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On Mar 28, 2013, at 03:46, Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> wrote:

> uppercase/lowercase change

Your local file system is case insensitive.  
But there are pairs of files in the Internet-drafts directory that differ only in case.
Both files map to the same file on your system.
So each time rsync runs, it finds a file that differs from the local file and overwrites it.  
Next time, it notices that the other file does not match your local file and overwrites it with that.
I laughed out loud when I first noticed this...

Grüße, Carsten

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