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Re: Case sensitivity

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-10-27 19:26:16 CEST

argusmarek@mail.icmax.com.pl wrote:
> TortoiseSVN v. 1.4, Windows XP
>
> If a filename was changed in case, TortoiseSVN recognizes it and restored
> the filename when you commit your changes.

That's a feature we provide to avoid problems with the
case-insensitivity on windows.

> But, if you right click the file, it's not being matched to your working
> copy. E.g. you can't compare it with working copy, commit, update,
> rollback etc. The option to add the file to repository is shown.

That's intended that way. Otherwise you could never fix case problems if
they ever happen (e.g. if you use another svn client to commit, or if
someone else already committed two files which differ only in case).

> Some tools may change filenames in case without notice. This is causing
> problems with TortoiseSVN. Since Windows is case-insensitive, it would
> be better not to recognize filename cases. Avoiding that would help you
> avoiding problems like that.

We can't simply ignore the case. Subversion is case-sensitive, and we
have to deal with it.

Stefan

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