Re: Case-insensitivity causes data loss under win32

John Peacock wrote:

> At this point "xcom.prg" is considered missing; do an 'svn status' at
> this point and see if you see that (and that XCOM.PRG show up with a
> question mark).

Correct:

>svn status
? XCOM.PRG

> I would think that this would vastly slow down processing, because every
> time svn finds a file missing, it would have to then look again for an
> uppercase representation.

I suppose. I hadn't considered the performance issues; if this is the
case, then clearly such a check would be unacceptable.

> Don't use DOS apps??? Don't use Win32 and use a proper O/S??? <ducks>

I wish. Well, we're heading in that direction, but I need a more
immediate solution for the time being.

Thanks,

Tristan Seligmann

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Received on Tue Oct 7 15:57:51 2003