Re: Case only rename during merge breaks WC

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:52 AM, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > Paul touched on that. The issue is that merge is like an edit of the
> > > working copy. On Windows and OSX, you cannot do a case only-rename of
> > > a file. You can receive an update because it is altering the working
> > > copy as it goes.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't follow. How does a merge not act like an update here?
>
> Merge can be reverted, so both copies of the file need to remain in
> the WC text-base.

Oh, right! The issue is the text-base! Sorry, I didn't completely follow.

(wc 2.0 can solve this isssue by storing text-bases (and any other
pieces of content worth tracking) in a content-hash-addressable
store.)

--dave

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