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Re: [TSVN] Compatibility Issue with TortoiseSVN on case-unaware Windows XP and case-aware Linux (and UNIX like OS)

From: Rainer Müller <mueller_rainer_at_gmx.de>
Date: 2005-05-13 20:01:20 CEST

Erik Osterman wrote:
> I can't find any mention of this issue on the bug tracker and the FAQ.
>
> Synopsis: Checking out 2 or more files with the same name
> (case-insensitive) on an OS that has a file system which is not
> case-aware (e.g. Windows) causes a temp file issue where it trys to
> rename the temp file and it fails. This causes the whole checkout
> process to fail.

That's normal behavior. Please read our FAQ entry [1] and the Subversion
book.

You can install a pre-commit hook [2] which prevents you from commits
which would break a checkout with Windows.

Rainer

[1]
http://tortoisesvn.berlios.de/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=7&id=34&artlang=en
[2] http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn-xml/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/

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