Re: Bad bug in the Windows Client? (Case issue - duplicate files)

On 07.06.2005, at 22:31, John wrote:

> James FitzGibbon <jfitzgibbon <at> primustel.ca> writes:
>
>> There was a long thread on this a few months back.
>> The short answer IIRC was that it's not Subversion's job to handle
>> (in-core)
>> the limitations of case-insensitive filesystems.
>
> Absolutely! Serves people right for using esoteric, minority filing
> systems like
> NTFS.
>
> (Yep, I'm being ironic).
>
> John (win32 user)

Yup... vast majority of Windows users + vast majority of Mac users = no
clear majority of Subversion users here. :-)

While I agree that Subversion should permit checking in files that
already exist in another case variant (since this can easily be
prevented by a hook if desired), the error message encountered when
attempting to check out a directory containing two or more files with
names differing only in case should be improved to indicate that this
is the reason it can't be checked out.

Ryan (Mac OS X user, clinging to my PowerPC a little while longer...)

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Received on Tue Jun 7 23:20:05 2005