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Re: Merge function has case sensitive URLs

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:35:47 -0400

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:02, Joshua Thompson
<joshua54_at_internode.on.net> wrote:
> Apologies in advance if this has already been asked or answered but I could not find it anywhere.
>
> Issue:
> When using the merge function to merge revisions across two different working copies the URLs are case sensitive.
>
> e.g. trying to merge from 'http://mysvn/project/trunk' to 'http://mysvn/Project/v1branch'.
>
> This has been observed in v1.6.6 and the latest version 1.6.10.
>
> What Happens: when you try to merge revisions you are told that they do not belong to the same repository - I assume because it is trying to match 'http://mysvn/project' to 'http://mysvn/Project'.
>
> Expected Outcome: Given that when you check out a working copy or view a repository the URL is case insensitive I would expect any other actions such as merging revisions would similarly be case insensitive.

You're only able to check out a case-insensitive URL when the server
is Windows. Subversion is case-sensitive and there is no way to "fix"
what you describe here other than to use the properly-cased URLs
everywhere.

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