Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 28, 2018 20:42 UTC (Wed) by saffroy (guest, #43999)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by tnoo
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Consider hash values 0xabcdef and 0xABCDEF: well, they are the same value. :) Hash-based names in hex actually don't care about case.

Besides, see my other comment about when and why it is needed.

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 17:05 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

Not if they're base64: abcdef and ABCDEF are different values in base64. Git can get away with base16 because it uses a short 160-bit hash, but other hash algorithms have much longer outputs (256 or even 512 bits).

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 17:29 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link]

What's an example of an application that does that?