Re: Filename case

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.

> * This prevented someone on a case-insensitive system from checking
> 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).

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.

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