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Re: Case-sensitivity and Windows

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-07-01 02:35:39 CEST

Philip Martin wrote:

>Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
>
>
>
>>John Barstow <John_Barstow@gfsg.co.nz> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Garrett Rooney [mailto:rooneg@electricjellyfish.net] wrote:
>>>
>>>What do you mean by 'svn log ignores case'?
>>>
>>>C:\source>ls
>>>logotext.jpg
>>>
>>>C:\source>svn log logotext.jpg
>>>
>>>C:\source>svn log logoText.jpg
>>>
>>>
>>I don't use Windows, but isn't that the way a Windows program is
>>supposed to work? If you want case sensitivity then URLs (or a case
>>sensitive filesystem/OS).
>>
>>
>
>After further thought, I would expect this to be case sensitive even
>on Windows. Do you have both logotext.jpg and logoText.jpg in the
>entries file? The command 'svn log path/to/file' does not require the
>file to exist, all that is necessary for the appropriate entry to be
>present in the entries file, and that should be case sensitive.
>
>
We canonicalize the case of file arguments based on what's already in
the WC before looking at the entries file. This is not limited to svn
log at all.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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