Yes, it should be. This is frustrating however. I know that this can be
done since a simple "ren FOO.C foo.c" works fine, but the functionality
isn't implemented here. Perhaps I'll see if I can find the right place and
just implement it myself...
"Matt Sickler" <crazyfordynamite@gmail.com> wrote on 03/23/2007 11:27:39
AM:
> well, that is their decision - windows simply wont let you do it (
> unless you use a non NTFS / FAT filesystem, that could work, maybe )
>
> it should be a one time deal anyway, right?
> On 3/23/07, Luke.Powell@bjservices.com <Luke.Powell@bjservices.com>
wrote:
> It would be nice, but there are certain elements of the department that
> are... reluctant to work on anything but Windows.
>
> "Matt Sickler" <crazyfordynamite@gmail.com > wrote on 03/23/2007
11:23:52
> AM:
>
> > do the rename on a filesystem that cares about case? ( like linux )
>
> > On 3/23/07, Luke.Powell@bjservices.com <Luke.Powell@bjservices.com>
> wrote:
> > We are operating under Windows and are bringing some old files under
> > version control that are from old DOS days when the filenames were
> > capitalized by default, e.g. FOO.C. We'd like to rename these
according
> to
> > more modern standards, but when we try doing "svn rename FOO.C foo.c"
we
> > are told that we "Cannot move path ' FOO.C' onto itself." So far the
> only
> > alternative has been to do it directly to the repository, e.g. "svn
> rename
> > svn://my.rep/FOO.C svn://my.rep/foo.c" but doing it that way generates
a
> > lot of revisions and is very slow. Is there any other way to do what
we
> > need to do?
> >
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