linux server + win32 client, case sensitivity and symlinks

Hello,

I'm running a 1.3.0-1 RHEL3 RPM server and the 1.3.0-setup.exe
CLI client on a Windows XP workstation. In trying to checkout a legacy
unix project on the win32 machine, I get this error:
   svn: In directory 'images'
   svn: Can't copy 'images\.svn\tmp\text-base\tony.JPG.svn-base' to 'images\tony.JP
   G.tmp': The system cannot find the file specified.

The issue appears to be that the repository contains two separate files:
   tony.JPG
   Tony.JPG

But since win32 is case insensitive, this doesn't translate well to
the filesystem. I've seen similar issues from the same project
regarding symlinks.

I've done a ton of reading on this, and judging from this message:
     http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-05/1987.shtml

It appears that subversion just doesn't attempt to care about the
client filesystem's case sensitivity. So according to that, if
I need to develop on win32 for a linux server, then I need to go
with the least common denominator and avoid the use of case sensitive
filenames and symlinks altogether.

Is that an accurate assessment? Or am I missing something?

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Received on Tue Apr 11 23:02:19 2006