RE: Case sensitve archive in Windows

No, Andy is right.

We've seen the same thing (under the same conditions: trying to export a Linux source tree onto a Windows machine).
There are several files in the network part of the Linux code which differ only in case - a fairly bad idea you'd have
thought.

Attempting to checkout the repos will fail, and the only way we've found to recover is
- remove the working copy dir with the offending files
- run the cleanup command
- rename the offending files in the repos from a Linux client (yes we know this will break the build, but we don't care)
- ... And now you can checkout the files

So a nicer solution would be welcome.

(apparently the word from the Linux folks is "building or checking it out on Windows machines is not supported". So
there).

-----Original Message-----
From: h.larsen@risoe.dk [mailto:h.larsen@risoe.dk]
Sent: 15 January 2006 22:26
To: users@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: RE: Case sensitve archive in Windows

> From: Andy Gryc [mailto:andy@gryc.ws]
> I'm using Tortoise SVN version 1.3.0.5377 RC2. I have a large
directory
> that I've checked into my repository from Linux, and parts of that
very
> large directory tree contain two files with the same name differing in

> case only. If it were completely up to me, I would rename these
files,
> but they come from the Linux source distribution that I'm working
with,
> and I'm not likely to influence that.

You can do an export of the repos. This procedure will not stall when encountering case clashes, but simply overwrite
the clashing files such that you are left with the last being exported, whichever that might happen to be!

BUT, you only get a copy of the files and no revision control. Maybe this is never the less useful for your?

henning

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