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Re: Case Insensitive File Names?

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_telegraphics.com.au>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:20:38 -0600

On 18-Feb-08, at 3:51 PM, Menachem Bazian wrote:

> At the risk of insulting all your *nix purists out there, I wanted
> to ask for a possible new feature for SVN. It would be great if we
> could have a switch that would ignore case in file names.
>
> As a backup plan, can a hook be created so that when a file is
> updated/added/watever that it converts the filename to a standard
> format (e.g., all lower case)?
>
> We work in a windows environment and the file name case sensitivity
> can be a problem for us...

That's funny, we use OS X and rarely have an issue. But perhaps we
are just more careful.

--Toby

>
> Thanks for your input...
Received on 2008-02-19 05:52:53 CET

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