RE: CaSe insensetive OS not handled well

There is already a hook to do this in the contrib directory:

http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/check-case-inse
nsitive.pl?rev=15377&view=log

The description is as follows:

--START--

Pre-commit hook that stops case insensitive collisions.

This script can be called from a pre-commit hook on either Windows or
a Unix like operating system. It implements the checks required to
ensure that the repository acts in a way which is compatible with a
case insensitive file system.

When a file is added this script checks the file tree in the
repository for files which would be the same name on a case
insensitive file system and rejects the commit if there is a match.
---END---

The thing that is funny to me is that it's the same description this hook
script has
had every time this issue rears it's head on the list. I've only been using
svn for
about 8 months, and I swear this is the 5th distinct time I've referred to
this hook
script.

Perhaps this should be a "how-to" on the website?

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Ellis [mailto:m.a.ellis@ncl.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 3:14 PM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Cc: David Weintraub; Janulewicz, Matthew
Subject: Re: CaSe insensetive OS not handled well

On Friday 19 Aug 2005 19:55, David Weintraub wrote:
> I haven't met a VCS which works on both Windows and Unix where case
> sensitivity/case insensitivity isn't a problem. A lot of time, it
> merely depends upon the back end repository.
>
> I have a Subversion hook that can be used to ban the creation of files
> with certain regular expressions in their names. Maybe simply ban all
> uppercase letters in a repository that is used by both Unix and
> Windows? That is, you can have a file named foo.c, but not Foo.c or
> FOO.C. Will this cause more problems than it will solve?

Perhaps the Darcs way of refusing to add/change a file name or directory
where the new name differs only in case to an existing file would be a
little
less, er... heavy handed? :o)

(It also has --case-ok to force 'bad' behaviour)

Martin

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