petermity <6t12-n6js_at_dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
>Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
>>On Jun 2, 2009, at 03:37, Bolstridge, Andrew wrote:
>>
>>>>> I mean, there isn't any good reason why .jpg and .Jpg and .JPG
>>>>> should
>>>>> not match to the same mime-type, right?
>>>>
>>>> I can't think of any good reason, and nobody else has responded.
>>>
>>> Frankly, I can't think why SVN isn't case-insensitive for
>>> everything. If
>>> anyone has myfile.txt, Myfile.txt and MYFILE.txt in the same directory
>>> they need to be told about preventative maintenance :)
>>
>>I believe these would all come under the umbrella of backwards-
>>incompatible changes, and thus could not be considered until
>>Subversion 2.0 at the earliest.
>
>I can understand that view for essential commit and other operations - but
>it seems to me that for the specific case of mime-types-file extension
>matching, there are unlikely to be any compatibility issues.
Since there has been no further discussion - I looked in the Subversion
Issue Tracker issue summaries for "case", "sensitive", and "mime", and did
not see this issue listed.
Should I submit this, or did I miss it as an existing issue?
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Received on 2009-07-15 10:14:01 CEST