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Re: Case Insensitive File Names?

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:02:41 -0800

Menachem Bazian 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...
>
> Thanks for your input...

In the mean time, if svn ever grows such a feature, you should at least install
this hook script into the server:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/case-insensitive.py

Regards,
Blair

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Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
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