RE: Bad bug in the Windows Client? (Case issue - duplicate files)

There was a long thread on this a few months back. The short answer IIRC
was that it's not Subversion's job to handle (in-core) the limitations of
case-insensitive filesystems.
 
There is a contrib hook to protect against this type of thing from
happening. Take a look HYPERLINK
"http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/"http://svn.coll
ab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/ (specifically HYPERLINK
"http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/check-case-insen
sitive.pl"check-case-insensitive.pl):
 
# This script can be called from a pre-commit hook on either Windows or a
Unix
# like operating system. It implements the checks required to ensure that
the
# repository acts in a way which is compatible with a case preserving but
# case insensitive file system.
#
# When a file is added this script checks the file tree in the repository
for
# files which would be the same name on a case insensitive file system and
# rejects the commit.
 
Regards

   _____

From: Scott Palmer [mailto:scott.palmer@2connected.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:24 PM
To: Brad
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Bad bug in the Windows Client? (Case issue - duplicate files)

On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Brad wrote:

I have encountered a severe problem with subversion in windowsXP.

I believe a user copied over a file called temp.JPG that they wanted to add
to subversion, however another file, temp.jpg already existed. Windows
overwrote the old one, subversion thought it was a new file and allowed the
user to add it. Once the file was committed,

It appears that users can commit files with the same names in different
"cases". Linux handles this just fine, but windowsXP does not. Currently any
user that tries to checkout from the repository in windows will get an error
and cannot proceed. Even once I fix this, around 2 dozen revisions will
already be "un-checkout-able" for them.

Shouldn't subversion have the ability to prevent this?

Yes, it should.

Does it already?

No, it doesn't - at least not out of the box.

Do I need to create a hook?

Yes.

I need a way to prevent hundreds of users from doing this, many of which are
not computer literate. Any ideas?

Use a pre-commit hook that rejects commits that will result in files in the
repository that only differ by case.

Scott

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