On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:38:30AM +0200, Alexander Pohoyda wrote:
> > Egbert Eich wrote:
> > > CVSROOT:  /home/x-cvs
> > > Module name:      xc
> > > Changes by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]       03/06/20 06:15:33
> > > Log message:
> > >   - moving xkbcom/geometry/HP to xkbcom/geometry/hp doesn't seem to be
> > >     possible as CVS doesn't allow a directory to have the same name as
> > >     a deleted file.
> > > Added files:
> > >       xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/HP/:
> > >         Imakefile hp omnibook
> 
> I have developed the omnibook geometry and I have a new geometry for
> the DELL Inspiron laptop. I'm not submitting the latter because I
> would not like to see a new directory DELL there.
> Why should some company names be capitalized and others not?

Uhm, HP is an abbreviation for Hewlett-Packard - two proper nouns, which should
be capitalized. Dell, on the other hand, is just the last name of Michael, and
thus shouldn't be fully capitalized.

> Would it be possible to fix this issue on the repository side? I mean
> manually delete files `hp' and `dell' and create directories instead?

I did suggest this (mv hp,v hp.old,v).

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