I absolutely agree. But it's nice to have meaningful error messages, as
they provide great feedback for the the user (which leads to better
feedback for the CM person).
-John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett Rooney [mailto:rooneg@electricjellyfish.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 22:55
> To: danpat
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Filename case sensitivity under Win32
>
>
> On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 10:50 PM, danpat wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We've come across a situation where someone has managed to create
> > filenames in the repository that conflict under a filesystem that
> > is *without* case sensitivity. I'm still tracking down the users
> > set of actions, but I thought I'd send a quick note here anyway.
> >
> > The repository looks like this:
> >
> > /trunk/docs/Document1.doc
> > /trunk/docs/Document1.Doc
> >
> > A checkout to a case sensitive filesystem works just fine, as the
> > filenames are different. However, under Win32 (both FAT
> and NTFS),
> > a checkout fails with:
> >
> > A trunk/docs/Document1.doc
> > svn: Can't find an entry
> > svn: could not checkout a file
> > svn: timestamps_equal_p: `Document1.doc' not under
> revision control
> >
> > This can be corrected by renaming one of the files to a
> > non-conflicting
> > name in the repository.
> >
> > I'm guessing this is an error that probably *can* be
> detected more
> > gracefully
> > than this, and it only needs to get as OS specific as "Does this
> > filesystem
> > support case sensitivity" ?
> >
> > I'm not sure what the correct thing to do would be,
> bombing out due
> > to a
> > filename
> > conflict would be fine, but a more useful error message might be
> > helpful
> > :)
>
> We actually ran into a similar problem in subversion's own repository
> (files with a : in their name don't play nicely with windows). The
> consensus was that we can't possibly work around every single weird
> limitation of every single file system out there, so we don't try. I
> mean it's not like it stops at case sensitivity, there are any number
> of other strange requirements on various different platforms (god
> forbid we ever port to VMS for example), and personally i think we've
> got better things to do than keep up with all of them.
>
> -garrett
>
>
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