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Re: Case Insensitive File Names?

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:02:06 -0500

On Feb 18, 2008 4:51 PM, Menachem Bazian
<groups_at_bcconsultingservices.com> wrote:
>
>
> At the risk of insulting all your *nix purists out there, I wanted to ask
> for a possible new feature for SVN. It would be great if we could have a
> switch that would ignore case in file names.
>
> As a backup plan, can a hook be created so that when a file is
> updated/added/watever that it converts the filename to a standard format
> (e.g., all lower case)?
>
> We work in a windows environment and the file name case sensitivity can be a
> problem for us...

But how would it work in a mixed environment (some clients
case-sensitive, some not)?

Have you checked out case-insensitive.py to isntall as a pre-commit
hook script, to prevent case-sensitivity filename clashes from
happening in your repository in the first place? See the first script
linked at http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html#hook_scripts

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