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RE: [TSVN] Windows case-sensitive request

From: <Bill.Hughes_at_cgi-europe.com>
Date: 2005-07-20 17:39:04 CEST

Martin Tomes wrote:
> Lübbe Onken wrote:
>> Hi Pawel,
>>> Our company runs entirely on WindowsXP, and we found problem with
>>> case- sensitive locks/logins/checkouts.
> >
>> Please read this: http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/?q=node/8
>>
>> There are several possible solutions for this problem of which IMO
>> the best ist the server side pre-commit hook. I have also seen that
>> a new check-case-insensitive script that was committed to the
>> subversion repository.
>
> I committed a Python script check-case-insensitive.py yesterday.
>
> Using this script you can avoid getting into the biggest mess which is
> adding a case sensitive file name clash to the repository.
>
> Although there are plenty of potential problems with the client not
> understanding case insensitive file systems those problems
> don't occur
> very often.
>
> Don't use the Perl one, I will remove it at some point.

What's wrong with the Perl hook? I don't have python at present but do use
perl...

Bill

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