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Re: svn_load_dirs case-insensitive comparisons on Windows

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:45:56 -0500

On Aug 21, 2008, at 02:34, Jeremiah van Oosten wrote:

> Unfortunanlty, there are many different people working on these assets
> that are being exported and it might be the fault of the particular
> user
> who is doing the export that they are not using the exact same case
> when
> they modify and re-export the assets (it might even be the case that
> they are exporting on different OS's and on Unix breeds perhaps the
> exports are always in lowercase?), however it isn't the 3rd party
> software that is failing during export so there is no perceivable
> error
> there. In addition, the 3rd party asset creation team is not using SVN
> and thus may never realize what is at fault.
>
> The failure occurs when trying to import the content into a vendor
> branch using the svn_load_dirs.pl script. Since it is the script
> that is
> failing, it is the script that should be adapted to account for this
> occurance.

Well, a Subversion repository is a case-sensitive entity, regardless
of whether the client or server is running Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
or any other OS. So svn_load_dirs.pl is just conforming to that. So
that's why it is the way it is. I can see that it would be useful in
some cases to allow case-insensitive loading, but I don't think
anybody has implemented that so far.

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