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RE: Changing name capitalization under Windows

From: Méresse Christophe <christophe.meresse_at_nagra.com>
Date: 2007-03-23 17:44:10 CET

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> From: Luke.Powell@bjservices.com [mailto:Luke.Powell@bjservices.com]
> Sent: vendredi, 23. mars 2007 17:17
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Changing name capitalization under Windows
>
> 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?

Just an idea (not certain that it works): Try with Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/)

Regards
Christophe

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