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Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by tomstuart on Saturday March 26, 2011 @03:22PM (#2372921)
Great news. Thanks, MacRuby.

And now, in the interests of looking a Git horse in the mouth: it's a shame about the CamelCase in the organisation and repository names. Not many people do this on GitHub; for example, GitHub's own organisation name is "github", not "GitHub", even though the company name is ordinarily written in camel case.

Stretching out before me is a grim meathook future of repeatedly typing "macruby/macruby", then seeing "ERROR: macruby/macruby.git doesn't exist", then saying GOD DAMMIT, then retyping it with the caps.

Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by lrz on Saturday March 26, 2011 @05:12PM (#2373207)
Hmm, is that really a problem? https://github.com/macruby/macruby is working as expected. I assume you would just type the camel case name once, when cloning the repository.
Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by imajes on Saturday March 26, 2011 @06:26PM (#2373397)
it's a problem on the filesystem.
Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by themgt on Saturday March 26, 2011 @07:22PM (#2373520)

  git clone git://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby.git macruby
Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by nikster on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:59PM (#2374011)
Case sensitivity on a file system is generally retarded. I think it was an accidental 'feature' of some file systems and now in order to be compatible everyone has to do it. Real world benefit is zero while the annoyance factor is high. Not counting lost productivity due to case related bugs....
Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by sid0 on Sunday March 27, 2011 @11:46AM (#2375183)
Thankfully both the most widely used desktop OSes in the world don't have case sensitivity.
Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by evilduck on Sunday March 27, 2011 @12:11PM (#2375249)
I always add to my inputrc

  set completion-ignore-case on
It relieves some of the annoyance factor when tab-completing in linux.
Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by sid0 on Sunday March 27, 2011 @12:45PM (#2375332)
Thanks for the tip!
Re:MacRuby is moving to Github by wtn on Saturday March 26, 2011 @04:05PM (#2373024)
Yes, this is irritating, not unlike the RedCloth gem.