Re: TortoiseSVN update on Windows with filenames that differ only in letter case breaks - should be prevented.

Dave Scotese wrote:
> An effective way to prevent development of a project on a Windows box is
> to name two files in the same directory using the same sequence of
> letters but change the case on at least one letter. Windows will
> overwrite one with the other, and TSVN won't be able to find all the
> files it expects, and the working copy will become nearly useless.
>
> I don't think it would be too much work search the list of *new* files
> to be retrieved from the repository for filenames that will cause this
> problem, and throw an error before locking up the working copy.
>
> BTW, if this issue has been reported already, my search for "filename
> case" did not find the previous report.

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&client=pub-9313125053076989&channel=8989477434&cof=FORID%3A1%3BGL%3A1%3BLBGC%3AFF9900%3BLC%3A%230066cc%3BVLC%3A%23336633%3BGALT%3A%230066CC%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BGIMP%3A%23666666%3BDIV%3A%23999999%3B&domains=svn.haxx.se&q=case-sensitive&btnG=Search&sitesearch=svn.haxx.se

Search for "case-sensitive" or "case-insensitive". There's a ton of
reports and explanations about this.

Stefan

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