Re: Case sensitivity bug in windows with powershell.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm, I don't see this problem with "cd" in cmd.exe.

No, the problem is only with powershell, but I do believe powershell
does what it is designed to do in this case. It uses a unified
location system for more things than just filesystems (you can cd into
the registry, LDAP etc) and some of them are case sensitive so it
preserves the user's typed string. The problem is also with the
Set-Location cmdlet, the old, default "cd" command in powershell.

Powershell contributes to this problem a bit more; in powershell you
can tab-expand the path names. If you just tab-expand one directory at
a time, it changes to the correct case of it. But if you write two
directories at once (ie apa\Banana), only the second directory gets
changed into the correct case. With a longer path and a single letter
with the incorrect case, then it is of course a lot less obvious what
is wrong.

From a usability point of view, this should be fixed in subversion as
windows (and most OSX users) expect that the file names should be case
insensitive and other uses of subversion work correctly when the wrong
case is used, ie:
PS C:\temp\WC> svn mkdir APA
A APA
PS C:\temp\WC> svn mkdir apa\banan
A APA\banan

At the very least the error message should suggest a fix.

/Sebastian

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