2011/4/16 Branko Čibej <brane_at_e-reka.si>:
> On 16.04.2011 16:14, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
>> Do I have to worry about differences between on-disk casing and wc-db
>> casing of a path? Is that possible? I guess it is by using non-svn
>> commands, but I bet that's an invalid state of the wc (I know that in
>> 1.6, if you run into this, svn gets all confused (marking the file it
>> has in metadata as deleted, and your on-disk file as unversioned)).
>> That's definitely out of scope for the change I'm trying to make.
>
> "Valid state" is kinda fuzzy, and since some tools (still) insist on
> changing file case every which way, this case can realistically be
> expected to happen every once in a while. But certainly more than just
> rename are affected by it, so I guess it's not realistic to try to deal
> with the problem in your patch.
>
> The most famousest case where this can happen is if you try to check out
> "Foo" and "fOO" in the same directory on a case-insensitive file system.
> Our answer to that has been, "don't do that"; and it would take very
> significant surgery in the client and WC libraries to make it work. I'm
> unaware of any version control system that handles such cases correctly.
>
> By the way, does your patch deal with the case where an "svn update"
> results in a case-only rename?
AFAIK, that already works correctly (at least it did in 1.5 and 1.6 -
we regularly had that situation at work - no problem, the filename is
changed to the correct casing during "update").
The only problem I'm trying to address is that "svn move" still blocks
a case-only rename on Windows at the command-line / client layers,
although WC-NG can now handle it. WC-1 couldn't handle it in the
working copy, but WC-NG can.
As explained by Bert in the last comment of issue #3702: "svn ren TODO
todoQ; svn ren todoQ todo" now works with WC-NG, while it didn't work
in the past. But "svn ren TODO todo" is still blocked, because it's
internally converted to "svn ren TODO TODO" (both paths converted to
on-disk casing).
--
Johan
Received on 2011-04-17 08:57:45 CEST