Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008b_at_ryandesign.com> wrote on 07/01/2008
04:02:24 PM:
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 08:31, emerson cargnin wrote:
> I see from your paths that you're on Windows, which usually uses a
> case-insensitive filesystem.
>
> Do you maybe have two files in that directory whose names differ only
> in case? That can cause this error. Two files whose names differ only
> in case can coexist in the same directory with no problems in a
> Subversion repository, or on a case-sensitive filesystem, but not on
> a case-insensitive filesystem. You can use "svn ls URL" to look in
> the repository URL directly to see if my hunch is correct. If so, you
> can use "svn cat URL" to see the contents of the two files. If they
> are identical, you can use "svn rm URL" to remove the file that you
> don't want to keep, or "svn mv URL1 URL2" to move it to a different
> name so that you can check it out.
>
>
> This problem comes up so often on the list. It should be turned into
> a FAQ entry. And then, Subversion should be modified to detect the
> situation and issue a better error message, for example: "Error:
> Cannot check out directory SnapShots on a case-insensitive filesystem
> because ssf27f0.html.z and ssf27f0.html.Z differ only in case". This
> bug says no Subversion developers use case-insensitive filesystems,
> as an explanation for why the error message has not been improved:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2010
>
> Is that still the case? No Subversion developers use Mac OS X or
> Windows?
NTFS can actually work in a case sensitive manner (originally for
POSIX support). Most of the Win32 Object Manager APIs do have a case
sensitivity option.
However, even if SVN was modified to support this option (I believe
it would most likely be in APR), users would still be confused when
they can't use normal win32 applications to open their files that
differ by CaSe only...
I assume we would still want SVN to support FAT32 as well, which
means we can't do much except spit out a better error message.
Kevin R.
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