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Re: Change case on a filename in wc under Windows?

From: John Peacock <jpeacock_at_rowman.com>
Date: 2003-12-18 15:37:21 CET

Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:

> I'm probably not the only person who has had to deal with this, and I
> probably won't be the last. Are there plans for a better solution to this
> problem in future versions of svn? "Better" being defined as "Easier for the
> end user" in this case. It's unlikely that the correct solution is viable
> (fixing the non-case-sensitive OS and filesystem).

The "correct" solution is for the user to check in the file with the proper case
in the first place, and not try and work around it in svn (which works just fine
on case-sensitive O/S's). This is a carbon-based error, nothing more...

John

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