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Re: Case-sensitivity with SVNParentPath?

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:28:31 -0400

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 18:04, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 09:29, Andy Levy wrote:
>
>> SVN 1.5.2, Apache 2.2.something, running on Win2K3.
>>
>> I have all my repositories in e:\Repositories . My location block is (cut
>> down):
>>
>> <Location /Repos>
>> SVNParentPath E:/Repositories
>> </Location>
>>
>> I can interchangeably use http://HOSTNAME/Repos/Operations and
>> http://HOSTNAME/Repos/operations for checkout, browsing and locks, but
>> commits to http://HOSTNAME/Repos/operations fail with a 403 Forbidden
>> error because everything is configured as Operations in my
>> AuthzSVNAccessFile.
>>
>> The repository was created on disk as Operations (svnadmin create
>> e:\Repositories\Operations)
>>
>> The 403s I expect when using lower-case operations, but I don't
>> understand why I was able to check out (or list, or info) on that URL.
>> I thought everything was case-sensitive.
>
> It's probably just the case-insensitive Windows filesystem allowing this to
> happen.

That's what I was afraid of. I need to set up a non-Windows virtual
server to test the theory out.

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