Re: Case-insensitivity causes data loss under win32

"SteveKing" <steveking@gmx.ch> writes:

> 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.

On Windows NT and MacOS X, the filenames are in Unicode; duplicating
the OS's case folding perfectly gets a bit harder.

I have an alternative idea: since Subversion thinks it's replacing a
non-existent file, the new file could be created with the APR_EXCL
flag. The open of the supposedly missing file will then fail, rather
than overwriting the changes.

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        -- Fred Allen
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