Re: Case Sensitivity (was: Re: A List of Issues)

Quoting Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk>:

> Another problem is filenames containing "special" characters. On Unix
> filenames containing ':' and '\' are perfectly reasonable. Subversion
> had a file with a ':' in it's name at one point (see the log for revs
> 1795 and 1805). That caused the Windows svn client to complain but was
> fine on Unix. I suspect that a filename containing '\' would also
> cause problems.

I don't think it would be wise to add special checks for such characters to the
libraries. A checkout would fail anyway. IMHO file naming is a matter of project
policy. If people want to make sure their reporitory contains no "bad" file
names, they can write a pre-commit hook script to check that.

(Having an example of such a script in contrib/ wouldn't hurt, of course.)

    Brane

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Received on Fri Jun 7 12:24:17 2002