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Re: Renaming files on win32

From: Gili <junk_at_bbs.darktech.org>
Date: 2004-12-21 20:15:27 CET

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:12:50 -0500, Scott Palmer wrote:

>
>On Dec 21, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Norbert Unterberg wrote:
>
>> kfogel@collab.net schrieb:
>>
>>> (Subversion itself pretty much had to be case-sensitive in the
>>> repository, of course, in order to support case-sensitive platforms at
>>> all.)
>>
>> Beeing a windows user, I always wanted to ask this:
>> Do *ix users really rely on case sensitivy (in the sense that they
>> store multiple files with just different case in the same direcotry,
>> like Test, test, TEST) so much that subversion needs to support this?
>> Is that common practice there?
>>
>> Norbert
>>
>
>I have seen .c used for 'C' source files and .C used for 'C++'. (Ugh!)

        <grin> I think ridding the world of this kind of behavior is a
"good thing" (tm). Isn't the standard C++ extension "cpp"?

Gili
Received on Tue Dec 21 20:19:59 2004

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