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Re: svn_load_dirs case-insensitive comparisons on Windows

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:44:35 -0500

On Aug 20, 2008, at 12:58, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Jeremiah van Oosten wrote:
>
>> We are currently using svn_load_dirs to import asset drops from a
>> 3rd part asset creation team.
>> It occurs quite often that files (literally thousands of files)
>> sent from the asset creation team have changed their names only by
>> case and not by name.
>> For example, the file "Image_Asset_01" in drop 1 has changed to
>> "image_asset_01" in the next drop (notice only the case of the
>> letters has changed between the two file names).
>> When we use svn_load_dirs to update the vendor branch, the script
>> will think that the file "Image_Asset_01" is deleted, and
>> "image_asset_01" is added to the vendor branch.
>> However, on Windows, when the file "image_asset_01" is copied from
>> the source drop folder to the working copy location, the file
>> "Image_Asset_01" file is replaced and the file name remains
>> "Image_Asset_01" (on Windows, file names are not considered case-
>> sensitive!).
>> Later, svn_load_dirs tries to perform a "svn delete" on the file,
>> but the file has local modifications (because of the copy) and the
>> "svn delete" command fails, causing the script to fail. Well, of
>> course we don't want the delete operation to succeed, because the
>> file should be updated in the repository.
>> What I would like to have is an optional argument (or automatic
>> defaults depending on the OS) that allows svn_load_dirs to create
>> its "add" and "delete" lists based on a case-insensitive file-name
>> matching. Hopefully this would prevent the svn_load_dirs script
>> from trying to add or delete files that should only be updated.
>> I looked into the script myself, but I'm not very proficient in
>> Perl and couldn't really pin-point the part of the script that is
>> building the add and delete lists :)
>> Does anybody have a solution to this? Better yet, perhaps the
>> script can be updated to include this option (default to case-
>> insensitive file-name matching on Windows) and available in the
>> next update? (Perhaps I need to submit an issue to the issue
>> tracker?)
>
> I wrote svn_load_dirs.pl and there's no active development on it.
>
> An easier solution would be to rename all the files you get from
> the 3rd party asset creation team into all lowercase and then use
> svn_load_dirs.pl. You would probably want to 'svn mv' all the
> existing files in svn into their lowercase variant and then use
> svn_load_dirs.pl.

I would consider it a user error to be randomly changing the case of
filenames. Users shouldn't do that.

Of course, it may be a 3rd-party tool that's changing the filename
case for the users. In that case, it is a bug in the 3rd-party tool.

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