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Re: Windows case-sensitive filesystem issues

From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch_at_stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2006-10-05 23:52:56 CEST

On 10/5/2006 5:37 PM, Eric Lemes wrote:
> Wow.. that's great.
>
> svnadmin create c:\svn\test
>
> svn checkout http://localhost:8080/svn/test test1
> copy c:\test.txt .\test.txt
> svn add test.txt
> svn commit -m "Test"
>
> del .\test.txt
> copy c:\test.txt .\TEST.TXT
> svn add test.txt
> svn commit -m "Test"
>
> svn checkout http://localhost:8080/svn/test test2
> A test2\TEST.TXT
> A test2\test.txt
> svn: In directory 'test2'
> svn: Can't copy 'test2\_svn\tmp\text-base\test.txt.svn-base' to
> 'test2\_svn\tmp\
> test.txt.tmp.tmp': The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> In the server side, I got two files, test.txt and TEST.TXT. Windows client
> cannot checkout both in the same dir.
>
> Is there any way to workaround this? Can I consider this a bug?

There's an FAQ item on this issue:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#case-change

The workarounds are to use a different filesystem, or to do a server
side move of one of the files to a name that doesn't conflict, etc.

Duncan Murdoch

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