On 22 July 2010 05:47, Bob Archer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 22 July 2010 03:12, dave b <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 22 July 2010 02:58, Bolstridge, Andrew >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> -----Original Message----- >> >>> excuse to say "we told you so". > "NTFS supports two slightly different modes of operation that can be selected > by the subsystem of the application interacting with NTFS. The first is fully > case sensitive and demands that file names supplied by the application match > the names stored on disk including case if the file on disk is to be > selected. The second mode of operation is case preserving but not case > sensitive. This means that applications can select files on the disk even if > the supplied name differs in case from the name stored on the disk. Note that > both modes preserve the case used to create the files. The difference in > behavior noted here applies only when an application needs to locate an > existing file. POSIX takes advantage of the full case sensitive mode, while > MS-DOS, WOW, and Win32 subsystems use the case insensitive mode." > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100625 > > I expect subversion runs within the Win32 subsystem and use the case > insensitive mode.
I am not sure. However, if you do a checkout and if there would be a conflict (which you can test for / check), then svn could potentially handle it differently to how it does currently iff the program / user wanted that :) -- Conscience doth make cowards of us all. -- Shakespeare
