> -----Original Message----- > From: dave b [mailto:db.pub.m...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:05 PM > To: dev@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Fwd: BUG: when performing a checkout use the cased url as in the > download URL > > > When performing a checkout use the cased url as in the download URL on > windows. > Ok I understand why this is not 'fixed'. > However, the behaviour is imho plain *wrong* and breaks LOTS of use > cases and existing repos. > I have described the expected behaviour below as a story / feature > request and how I think it should be fixed. > [snip] > > Yes I know this is caused by a problem in windows. However, it is no > excuse to say "we told you so".
Considering Windows is case-insensitive, how do you expect to be able to see folder FOO and foo inside folder bar? I think you want the client tool (TortoiseSVN in this case) recognise the fact and rename one on the fly. You're setting yourself up for a world of confusion in these cases as you'll never know what a filename will be called when you come to checkout files - which one gets renamed? What if I happen to have a file called FOO_CONFLICT already? There is only 1 solution on Windows: don’t have 2 files/folders called the same name in the same directory. The tools break no use-cases as it is impossible to have 2 files/folders of the same name in Windows. There is one thing you forget - Tortoise has the (excellent) feature of being able to recognise that a file has had its case changed in the WC, and offers to change it back to the repository casing. This occurs every so often when a tool decides that lowercase names are best and rewrites a file. If you have 2 files differing only in case, how will Tortoise decide which one is which? If it leaves it as-is, will you expect a re-cased file to commit over the wrong file? Eg. I have foo.txt and FOO.txt in the repo, visual studio renames FOO.txt to be foo.txt, and I commit... I've just overwritten the wrong file! That's really not a good situation. The only solution on Windows is to rename your files/folders. The only thing the SVN guys can do it make SVN case-insensitive too (which would be nice :) ) as I think filenames differing only in case is a bad practice in the first place.
