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Re: Yet another Case-Insensitive File System Problem

From: Michael Wood <mwood_at_its.uct.ac.za>
Date: 2003-07-31 12:47:02 CEST

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:24:11PM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
[snip]
> Giving us poor NTFS souls a way, even a limited way, to continue to
> participate is much better, IMHO, than simply erroring out due to the
> idiotic limitations of the local filesystem. Being able to exclude a
> portion of the tree during checkout seems a reasonable concession in
> that direction. Think of it as an svn:antiexternal feature.

Well I don't know about OS/2's filesystem(s) (hpfs?) but I believe it's
possible to switch NTFS into case-sensitive mode. Unfortunately, I
don't know how to do this or what problems it may cause. Would this
help? :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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