Re: Case-insensitivity causes data loss under win32

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Peacock" <jpeacock@rowman.com>

> In order to warn on capitalization changes, the loop would look like this:
>
> open directory
> while filename = next file
> does this filename exist in textbase (i.e. svn knows it)
> YES - process file (update/merge/whatever depending on
timestamp/etc.)
> * NO - scan the directory for matching files with different caps
> end while
> close directory
>
> That step at * above could potentially mean a complete scan of the
directory
> (and some people like to put 5000+ files in a single directory!).

If you would do it that way, then yes, the performance issue would be huge.
But that would be like a brute-force attack.
Much simpler:
  does this filename exist in textbase (and compare the paths
case-insensitive)
the standard c-library has comparison functions which ignore the case of
strings.

Stefan

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Received on Tue Oct 7 16:44:12 2003