Julian Foad wrote:
> 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.
I'm unclear why this has to be part of Subversion itself. It seems like
project policy on what filenames are appropriate are just that: project
policy, no different from policy regarding use of branches and tags or
any number of other things. All this stuff can be dealt with via a
pre-commit hook if needed. Now if someone wants to write such a hook
script, more power to them, but I don't see how this is more complex
than that.
For the record, Perforce, which is quite 'useful on Windows', does not
have any such seat belts. I had a problem when my company first started
using Perforce with a file named prn.c. The server was on a win32
machine at the time, and windows interpreted the prn as 'printer', which
caused no end of grief.
-garrett
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Received on Mon Jun 30 03:22:59 2003