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Re: Merge function has case sensitive URLs

From: Joshua Thompson <joshua54_at_internode.on.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:58:53 +1000

Thanks for the explanation and sorry for wasting your time!

J.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Levy" <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
To: <users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: Merge function has case sensitive URLs

> 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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