> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Gaehwiler wrote:
> > >
> > > > the renaming of files to only change capitals does not
> > > > work on windows filesystem. example:
> > > >
> > > > create file 'Hello.TXT' (e.g. copied from DOS filesystem)
> > > > svn add Hello.TXT
> > > > svn move Hello.TXT hello.txt
> > > > svn: Cannot move path 'Hello.TXT' into itself
> > >
> > > See http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#case-change
> > >
> > > > so my question is: could somebody resolve this problem?
> > >
> > > The above FAQ isn't a proper solution, in my view. The
> > client should
> > > know it's on a case-insensitive system and work with that.
> >
> > How do you propose to solve the problem that 2 different
> > files map to the
> > same filesystem object?
>
> Recognise this is a case-blind filesystem, and deal with it. It's
> special-case code, but then it is a special case.
I was actually not asking you to tell me to deal with it, but I was asking
what you consider good behaviour for the Subversion client when dealing with
it. I can't feed "Deal with it" to a C compiler and expect a working
program.
>
> On updates, if the delete is done before the add (talking about effects
> on the WC here - I know they map on to copy+delete as repository
> operations), the old object wouldn't be in the way.
Ok. That is something to work with. But it leaves the problem of checking
out FOO.c and foo.c to the same directory unaddressed.
> Having just hit this recently it is a HUGE pain, particularly if you're
> trying to go backwards and forwards through revisions searching for
> where a bug was introduced. Maybe I did it incorrectly, but every time
> I tried to update to a revision on the other side of the change I got a
> "file in the way" error, so I had to update in two steps.
I don't deny that it's a pain, but implementing something which doesn't work
won't get you off my back, so that is why I was asking what you consider a
good algorithm. The "file in the way" error is the best error we can
generate (until we have a good algorithm to 'deal with this'), since there
really is a 'file in the way'.... Sorry.
> Ian Brockbank
> Senior Applications Software Engineer
> e: ian.brockbank@wolfsonmicro.com / apps@wolfsonmicro.com
> scd: ian@scottishdance.net
bye,
Erik.
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