Concerning Re: Change case on a filename in wc
Branko ÄŒibej wrote on 18 Dec 2003, 16:24, at least in part:
> John Peacock wrote:
>
> > Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
> >
> >> I'm probably not the only person who has had to deal with this, and I
> >> probably won't be the last. Are there plans for a better solution to
> >> this
> >> problem in future versions of svn? "Better" being defined as "Easier
> >> for the
> >> end user" in this case. It's unlikely that the correct solution is
> >> viable
> >> (fixing the non-case-sensitive OS and filesystem).
> >
> >
> > The "correct" solution is for the user to check in the file with the
> > proper case in the first place, and not try and work around it in svn
> > (which works just fine on case-sensitive O/S's). This is a
> > carbon-based error, nothing more...
>
>
> I disagree; Subversion should learn how to handle case-only differences
> on case-insensitive file systems. The fact that this also happens to be
> the ugliest part of filesytem programming (IMNSHO) doesn't help, of course.
Would it not be a solution to just have an option added in SVN
config to make it case-insensitive? If set all filenames are then
processed through a module making them lowercase in both
directions (into & out of the repos)? Suggesting lowercase as this
is the usual option for FTP apps under Windows anyway. Without
programming insight I do not know if that would be a big issue, not
in the meaning of doing now or post-1.x, but in coding as such.
However, I assume this would be a very helpful setting not only for
pure Windows but also for mixed environments, too. For they must
have some sort of naming convention anyway, else the Windows
users would not be able to checkout at all.
Jan Hendrik
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