Re: Case-insensitivity causes data loss under win32

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:27:49 +0200, "SteveKing" <steveking@gmx.ch>
wrote:

> Since Windows has
> a filesystem which is case-insensitive Subversion should just compare
> those path-strings case-insensitive on such OSes.

I expect that this way lies a nasty mess of surprises. It's not the OS
that is case-sensitive/preserving, it's the file system. If you use
SAMBA to (e.g.) mount an NTFS drive on a UNIX box, what's the case
there? Similarly, what happens when you mount a case sensitive file
system on to Windows?

Greg

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Received on Fri Oct 10 23:27:10 2003