Sebastien Cevey wrote:
>Hello
>
>A collegue of mine has experienced a problem with case-sensitive
>renaming under windows, that is, renaming "foobar" into "Foobar" for
>example.
>
That's called a case-only rename, BTW.
>I was not able to reproduce the bug for I got this :
>
>bash-2.04$ svn mv wc.png Wc.png
>svn: Trying to use an unsupported feature
>svn: cannot move path 'wc.png' into itself
>bash-2.04$
>
>using svn-0.17.1 on a win98, FAT32.
>
>This seems like a "normal" behavior to me, because of windows' stupid
>(IMHO) way of being case-insensitive.
>
No, acthally it's not normal behaviour at all. It's definitely a bug in
our code -- the repository can handle case-only renames, but our working
copy can't do that on case-insenstiive file systems.
>My friend however, got the usual
>
> D wc.png
> A Wc.png
>
>output, but svn had simply deleted the file, so there was no wc.png
>and no Wc.png file in his WC.
>
Weird. It shouldn't be doing that.
>He is running svn-0.17.1 on winXP.
>
>
>I don't know which behavior is expected, but the second sounds rather
>odd anyway ...
>
The first is expecteder (is there such a word? :-) but they're both
wrong, FWIW. Would you care to enter an issue about that into the issue
tracker? Remember, this is not Windows-specific -- I suspect OS X would
have similar problems.
>PS: I was not able to test with svn-0.18.1 because of the bug
>mentioned in the 'Diff problem in 0.18 win32 release?' thread ...
>
>
That's probably fixed by now.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Sun Mar 2 22:33:45 2003