Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Nov 27 18:51, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > I have to increment my idiot score by one.  This explanation only makes
> > sense on NTFS, of course.  FAT doesn't sort at all.  And even on NTFS,
> > the sort order is not just using the UTF-16 value of a character, but
> > the UTF-16 value of the uppercased character(*).  Oh my.
> >
> > (*) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/17/430194.aspx
> 
> So, since FAT(32) is still a viable option for an install location we
> should sort the list of files we get from the find, right?

It might help, yes.  It's also the safest way to implement that afaics.

> 
> >> Good, I was just worried that someone with a strange locale might end up
> >> with a different sort order.
> >
> > Let's just stick to ASCII for this.
> 
> Do we need to enforce that and if so, how?

No, let's keep this by contract only.


Corinna

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