Re: On VirtualPC Rename erases File

On 06.03.2010 22:44, Kevin Grover wrote:
> In Windows (NTFS and FAT), filenames are case _insensitive_, so
> CLSObjPrjKeys.h and cLSObjPrjKeys.h represent the same file. I know
> that svn had problems with renames like this (just case change) under
> Windows (and Mac, and any file system which is case insensitive).
>
> I haven't played with this in hg, so I'm not sure if there are any
> issues. If you can rename in two steps:
> 1) CLSObjPrjKeys.h --> temp
> 2) temp -> cLSObjPrjKeys.h
>
> Then there's probably an issue with the underlying file system. These
> types are problems are no really a fault of hg (or any other vcs), but
> more just an known limitation of the environment.

Actually, MoveFileEx() allows to rename files with case only. For
example, renaming TEXT.TXT to text.txt is no problem with MoveFileEx
without renaming it first to a temp file.

Stefan

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