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Re: Renaming files on win32[Scanned]

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2004-12-22 20:53:30 CET

Gili wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:21:22 +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>
> >Not if you use:
> >
> >_http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/check-case-insensitive.pl_
> >
> >which turns your repository case insensitive if installed as a hook
> script.
>
> Stuff like this should ship with Subversion and be on by default for the
> win32 binary download. That is, when I download Subversion server
> binaries, they should be preconfigured to use this by default.

No, they should not.

There is no way to tell beforehand if a particular repository is going
to be accessed by clients on a machine with a case-insensitive
filesystem. We've had the problem in Subversion's own repository and it
runs on a unix machine, for example. On the other hand, I could serve a
repository off of a windows machine that is accessed by unix clients
that have no problem with files that differ only in case. Only the
administrator of the repository in question can determine if it is
acceptable for their repository to include files that differ only in
case, thus the decision has been left up to them in the form of the hook
script.

-garrett

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