Re: Case-only renames on Windows (issue #3702)

On 25/03/11 10:09, Bolstridge, Andrew wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Branko Čibej [mailto:brane_at_xbc.nu]
>> On Behalf Of Branko Cibej Sent: 24 March 2011 15:32 To:
>> dev_at_subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Case-only renames on Windows
>> (issue #3702)
>>
> [snip]
>> In short, things aren't /that/ tricky as far as renames go. They're
>> a lot trickier during update and commit, if the editor hits a local
>> file that has the wrong case on-disk, but is otherwise versioned
>> (I've known brain-dead tools to case-only rename the files they'd
>> worked on).
>>
>> -- Brane
>>
>
> Of course, the best approach would just to make the entire system
> case-insensitive and cater to the lowest common denominator (after
> all, the http transport should be case-insensitive too, I get to the
> same place typing in www.apache.com or www.APACHE.com, but not when
> it comes to the svn repo url).

You may need to explain why people can't put copies of Linux 2.4 kernels
in the system then:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=blob;f=net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_tos.c
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=blob;f=net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TOS.c

Cheers,

John.

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