"Jan Hendrik" <list.jan.hendrik_at_gmail.com> wrote on 11/05/2008 11:09:28
AM:
>
> I have to rename a few dozen files from upper to lower case.
> Obviously this is not so straight forward on Windows, so I would
> prefer doing this directly in the repository. However, as far as I can
> see that works for one file at a time only, resulting in as many
> commits. Is that so or is there some way to have it all in one?
>
> I thought about a Knoppix live CD, but even if it had SCN loaded
> and were able to connect to the repository and check out a WC
> this still would be on an NTFS filesystem. I have no full meal Linux
> setup available and no spare partition I could feed Knoppix with.
>
> Another attempt was to check out to a Linkstation (NAS) which
> runs some embedded Linux and reportedly ext2 filesystem served
> through Samba, but both SVN and TSVN failed by renaming "a file
> onto itself". Obviously the Windows peculiarity prevails here over
> the *nix peculiarity. The Linkstation is not hacked, thus no shell or
> telnet access as far as I know about.
I would suggest using svnmucc and using the mv URL1 URL2 syntax multiple
times. svnmucc is included in the latest Windows command line utils.
Kevin R.
Received on 2008-11-05 18:15:03 CET