Martin Tomes wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> Jeff Lanzarotta wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have the subversion server (svnserve) setup on a linux machine and
>>> our clients run on Windows 2000.
>>> My question is, is there a way to protect against this? In this
>>> scenario, the files DELETE.ICO and delete.ico are actually the same
>>> file.
>>
>>
>> What exactly would you like to protect against? I see two issues here:
>>
>> * Someone on a case-sensitive system checked in two files that
>> differ only in case
>
>
> Not necessarily, if two people on Windows each add a file, one called
> delete.ico and the other DELETE.ICO and both commit then one can end
> up in the position described.
Oh bother. You're right.
>> out the tree.
>> As for the second issue, there's really not much to do once the damage
>> is done in the repo (apart from making the error message nicer, of
>> course).
>
> * This prevented someone on a case-insensitive system from checking
>
> I have a hook script on our CVS server which prevents this from
> happening, when the second person tries to commit the new file it is
> found to already exist with a different case and the commit is
> rejected. My next challenge is to write a pre commit hook script
> which does the same.
In this case, I think a hook script is exactly the right way to go. Of
course the fact that it has to support Unicode case folding isn't going
to help a bit.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Tue Jun 1 15:38:25 2004