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Re: Rename with lower/upper case chars

From: Toby Johnson <toby_at_etjohnson.us>
Date: 2007-03-14 18:37:54 CET

Ingo Siebert wrote:
> Hi Toby,
>
> thank you for your answer.
>
> It's true, the lower/upper-case filenames can be a problem on Windows
> filesystems. Very sad.
>
> But my windows explorer supports lower/upper case chars. I can rename
> them to the same name but with different upper/lower case chars. It's
> working fine with the windows explorer and other tools like Total
> Commander.
>
> That's why it must be possible for Subversion to solve the problem. I
> think the limitation doesn't really exists (anymore?).
> What's your opinion?

The problem is quite a bit more complicated than that, due to the facts
that: Subversion is written for many platforms, most of them fully
case-sensitive; and even though Windows preserves the case of a file, it
doesn't consider a rename involving only file case a true change to the
file.

See this thread and others in the mailing list archives for full
discussions of the problem:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2003-12/0333.shtml

toby

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