Concerning Re: Case-insensitivity causes data
Christopher Baus wrote on 10 Oct 2003, 14:39, at least in part:
> NTFS actually is case sensitive it just that most of
> the windows APIs in the presentation layer happily
> ignore this. The case sensitivity issue has already
> bitten once in the short time I've been using svn. I
> added files with the same name, but different
> sensitivity, from Unix and checked them out under
> Windows. Bam, weird errors, co fails.
Why not give SVN a switch as most FTP apps (at least for
Windows) have? ON = change all filenames to lowercase; OFF =
leave filenames as they are (this as default). That way pure UNIX
environments have nothing to change (or can make their life easier,
too, as setting it on keeps them from getting files twice and more
because of misspelling or not sticking to personal conventions),
while all mixed and pure Windows environments get a safe setting.
Jan Hendrik
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... the question becomes,
are you going to have everyone play by the same rules,
or are you going to try to rectify the shortcomings,
errors and failures of the entire cosmos?
Because those things are wholly incompatible.
If you're going to have people play by the same rules,
that can be enforced with a minimum amount
of interference with people's freedom.
But if you're going to try to make the entire cosmos right and just,
somebody has got to have an awful lot of power
to impose what they think is right on an awful lot of other people.
What we've seen, particularly in the 20th century,
is that putting that much power in anyone's hands is enormously dangerous.
-- Thomas Sowell, 1999
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Received on Sat Oct 11 16:46:41 2003