Sebastian Herrmann
A software-developing peep.
Case (In-)Sensitivity
on macOS
APFS is not case-sensitive by default :(
File renamings that only touch capitalization aren't being tracked by git (e.g. myComponent.tsx to MyComponent.tsx)
Problem #1: Git
Capitalization doesn't matter in file path imports (but it matters on other OSes!).
Problem #2: Imports
// Both lines equally work on macOS!
import Button from '../../components/button';
import Button from '../../components/Button';- enforce case sensitivity via git config (ignorecase = false)
- this also affects e.g. .gitignore (hence we needed a fix to capitalize ".DS_Store" correctly)
Solution for Git
- reformat our disks to use case-sensitivity? 😃
- doesn't seem to be possible for system partitions… 😢
Solution for imports
- at least Webpack is smart enough to warn us about ambiguous import paths
But…
kthxBye
Case Sensitivity on macOS
By Sebastian Herrmann
Case Sensitivity on macOS
…for Git and ES6 file paths.
