Re: How remove case 'duplicate' files from

You might want to consider a pre-commit trigger that checks for newly
added files, and fails the commit if another file with the same name
but different case is already in the repository.

See http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Andrew Hardy
<andrew.hardy_at_gl-group.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running SVN 1.5 on Windows.
>
> At a point in the past we have managed to add a 'duplicate' file to the repository, the file differs by its case.
>
> This is causing problems when we try to perform checkouts of files around the point at which the second file was added - we get messages about 'object of the same name already exists' - presumably because Windows respects case, but is not case-sensitive.
>
> How can I fix this?
>
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