Re: Bug found when checking out directories that differ only case are automatically merged on checkout

On 02.03.2012 22:07, Todd Nelson wrote:
> In 1.6 it fails with an error like the following:
> "Error: URL 'https://crsvn/tmn_test2/trunk/Dir2' of existing directory
> 'C:\Documents
> Error: and Settings\tmnelson\Desktop\test\dir2' does not match
> expected URL 'https://crsvn/tmn_test2/trunk/dir2' "
>
> I prefer having the checkout completely fail instead of allowing the
> checkout complete and attempting to merge the directories. The
> confusion for the end user would be much less IMHO.

If you search the svn mailing list you'll find a long (very long in
fact) discussion about this. The result was that it was decided that
failing the checkout is worse, because then the user can't do anything.
As it is now, at least most of the files are present, but the working
copy is still marked as not complete.
Because usually this happens only with one folder or one file, which
aren't needed on Windows anyway. There's rarely a project that has this
problem on Windows but still requires both items on Windows to
compile/work/be usable in any way.

Stefan

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