On 6/29/06, Laurent Piguet <laurent.piguet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Issue:
> users adding & committing files with both uppercase and lowercase letters
> cause havoc under Windows (why do they do this you ask? Well, they are ...
> users).
> This causes TortoiseSVN to fail with a non-trivial error message.
>
> How to reproduce:
> - add & commit two files called "test.TXT" and "test.txt".
> For example (from linux):
> % mkdir test
> % cd test/
> % echo "Test" > test.txt
> % echo "Test" > test.TXT
> % svn add test
> % svn commit -m '- Commit of test' test/
>
> - do a checkout using TortoiseSVN. See following error message:
> [image: 1724dfd.jpg]
>
> Notes:
> - This is handled properly under Linux (and probably other caps-aware
> OSes)
>
> - This is probably an svn issue, but since TortoiseSVN is used most under
> Windows...
>
> - I know that in my example, the add is done on the Linux side, but the
> users mentioned did it (somehow) from Windows.
>
> One way is to add&commit with Tortoise, then change the case and svn-add
> the renamed file.
> Do some changes to both files and update to get the problem.
>
> - I am still currently using 1.3.2, build 5840. I checked the issues, but
> didn't see anything related to caps, beside as they relate to renames.
>
> Thanks for a great product.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Laurent
>
>
>
>
http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/node/167 :)
Received on Thu Jun 29 16:24:48 2006