On 8/4/06, Riesterer, Shawn (GE Indust, GE Fanuc)
<Shawn.Riesterer@ge.com> wrote:
> Where I work, every once in a while a file somehow gets committed to the
> repository with the same name as a file already in the repository, but a
> different case. When this file is committed then with the new case, it
> appears as a new file in the repository. When someone working on
> Windows then does an Update, they get an error because a file with the
> same name already exists.
>
> Is it possible to add a feature (this could be an option that could be
> turned off as well via the TortiseSVN settings if working in a purely
> Linux environment for example) into TortiseSVN that warns the user if
> they are about commit a file to the repository with the same name but
> different case and asks them if they want to rename their working copy
> to match case of that in the repository? Basically, I would like
> TortiseSVN to handle the conflict between the case insensitivity of
> Windows and the case sensitivity of the repository.
>
> Here's an example:
> * I attempt to add Test.txt to the trunk even though test.txt already
> exists.
> * TortiseSVN pops up a message stating that test.txt already exists in
> the repository and I am trying to commit Test.txt and asks if I am sure
> that I want to commit these changes and that committing these changes
> will cause Windows users to not be able to get an update or do a
> checkout until one of the files has been removed.
>
> Or something to that nature.
>
> Is this possible to add or is there a better way to handle the case
> insensitivity of Windows better?
Probably the most-used solution is check-case-insensitive.py [1].
It's a pre-commit hook that looks for filename case clashes and blocks
the commit from happening if there are any.
This isn't really a TortoiseSVN question, not even an OS question -
Subversion's repositories are case-sensitive, and that's probably not
going to ever change.
[1] http://www.subversionary.org/howto/using-check-case-insensitive-py-on-windows
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Received on Fri Aug 4 19:20:49 2006