Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Posted Nov 29, 2018 17:05 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by saffroy
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity
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).
Posted Nov 29, 2018 17:29 UTC (Thu)
by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
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What's an example of an application that does that?
Filesystems and case-insensitivity