Re: Filename case

Jeff Lanzarotta wrote:

>This issue had really become a sore subject for me. I to am using a tool
>that can change and or generate random filename case. If can really
>cause problems with the repository.
>[...]
>
>

Do you have an alternative tool that is less sloppily coded? If so, I'd
suggest using that rather than make svn jump through hoops.

Joseph Lunderville wrote:

> [...]
>
>I can think of reasons besides development effort not to put this in the
>server, but I'd like to make the case for handling this as a special
>case in the client.
>
>

Be sure to make it a special case, not the default.

>My ideal behaviour would be for the client to silently ignore any case
>differences between the server and the client. [...]
>

As said, don't make it default. Because if you silently ignore case
differences, even if only on the client side, you will attract *much*
hate from programmers who use tool-chains that are case sensitive. Java,
for starters.

/Klaus Rennecke

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Received on Mon Jun 7 18:45:27 2004