Re: regarding issue 667: data loss??

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>In my ignorance of win32-ness, my instinctive proposal is to somehow
>teach libsvn_wc to be aware of its underlying filesystem. If it's a
>case-insensitive one, then it should be doing case-insensitive filename
>comparisons. If it's a case-sensitive filesystem, then do
>case-sensitive comparisons. But perhaps we've gone down this road
>before. Folks, please speak up about this.
>
>
libsvn_wc absolutely must know if the underlying filesystem is
case-insensitive. But case-insensitive comparisons _within_ libsvn_wc
won't work in general, because you don't know _how_ the filesystem does
case folding (yes, there's no single right way).

Instead, on a case-insensitive filesystem, we should check (stat for)
every entries item that's "missing" from the directory listing to check
if it really is missing and to get back the true file name. I believe a
recent commit (within the last 3 weeks?) added these checks in a number
of places.

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