Concerning RE: Case-insensitivity causes data
Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote on 7 Oct 2003, 9:16, at least in
part:
> What would be nice is a way to identify when a filename exists with a
> different case than svn knows about. Once the user sees an alert,
> action can be taken. It's only a problem when the user doesn't realize
> that there is a case problem.
>
> Perhaps a switch could be used on windows installations to do an
> initial check of case, and abort with a warning if something had
> changed. I suppose this could be specified in the config file, too.
From the outside of programming and multi-platform environments I
would say that a switch that changes SVN's behaviour from case-
sensitive to case-insensitive would be very fine even for *NIX users.
It would make sure that a repos could be checked out and worked
with on any platform. If there is no Windows in the net, ok, disable
the switch and the repos luckily keeps Test, TEST, test, TeSt etc.
side by side. But if there is only one Windows user a convention is
needed anyway to either save every file lowercase or uppercase or
whatever. This could be controlled and ensured centrally by the
server and its conf I would think/suggest. And the server would then
ship a conflict. And/or a setting for the client to change all
path/filenames to lowercase. FTP clients have this useful option.
IMVHO case-sensitivity of filenames is always a mess: someone
gives you an URL in a call and then you have to call back thrice till
he finally faxes it and you find it is something like
TOM/Dick/Jerry/MyREALLYBeautifulPics.HTML ...
Jan Hendrik
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Received on Wed Oct 8 12:11:29 2003