To add a bit more...
Dealing with case insensitivity should be a whole repository wide
configuration setting. (For simplicity vs. as a property on each
directory) Either the entire repository is case sensitive, or the entire
repository is case insensitive but case preserving.
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Tutt [mailto:rassilon@lyra.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:16 PM
> To: 'Karl Fogel'; Jay Freeman (saurik)
> Cc: svn-dev
> Subject: RE: Re: A List of Issues
>
>
> > From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net]
> >
> > > - Case SeNsitiVity
> >
> > I see the problem, but I'm not sure where to start on solutions.
> > Should the client just force downcase all paths on Windows?
>
> No, that's wrong. Windows (and Mac OS 9, dunno about the new Darwin
> stuff, Fitz can comment) file systems are case insensitive but case
> preserving.
>
> > It's
> > clearly not enough to depend on APR-under-Windows being properly
case
> > insensitive -- APR does fine, but we still have the original-case
> > path, and we're storing it that way in Berkeley DB.
> >
> > Ick. Maybe there's some nice trick I'm not thinking of?
> >
>
> Personally, I think people who get too upset about case sensitivity
are
> the people who need to be using GUI front ends to source code
management
> systems.
>
> Besides, cmd.exe has tab completion, use that for specifying files.
It's
> not like we're going to make URLs on the server case-insensitive or
> anything.
>
> Bill
>
>
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