Re: Case-sensitivity and Windows

Garrett Rooney wrote:
> John Barstow wrote:
>
>> I recently had a developer add a file twice, with slight differences in
>> case. This of course causes problems with updates and checkouts;
>> since the filesystem is case-insensitive.
>
> There are just too many filesystem dependent special cases that we don't
> bother trying to handle them.

Unfortunately if Subversion is going to be useful on Windows it is going to have to play nicely with case-insensitivity and other file system restrictions. Not only Windows; almost every platform has some different file naming restrictions. I think Subversion will need, to some extent, generalised support for file system restrictions:

  Is this file name valid (on file system X)?
  Is this file name the same as that one (on file system X)?
  etc.

and a policy or choice of policies for when to enforce these restrictions (at check-in time, or check-out/update time; per repository or per directory; etc.)

The details of how it can best do this will no doubt be thrashed out on this list in the near future.

- Julian

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Received on Mon Jun 30 03:05:23 2003