On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Robert Engelhardt <
m...@robert-engelhardt.de> wrote:

> I have under version control a directory "A" which was later renamed to
> "a". It contains the files "w", "x", "y" and "z". Although fossil should
> not be case sensitive on Windows (i.e., the respective setting is set to
> FALSE and was also never changed in the past), it for some reasons knows
> both the old and the new name of the directory.
> So while there's actually only one folder with four files in it, looking
> at the »Files« view in the fossil UI I see both "A" with files "w" and "x",
> and "a" with "y" and "z" (I assume files "w" and "x" were added prior to
> the renaming, and "y" and "z" later). Additionally, looking at the »files«
> (or »folders«) link of a specific check-in, I have a wild mix of entries
> "A\w", "a\y", "A\x" and "a\z" - in reality there are even more alternating
> entries of the same directory again and again… This looks confusing and
> doesn't seem right to me.
>

Make sure that you're not looking at the "all" list - there's a link across
the top submenu which says "trunk" - click that. In "all" view you see
filenames which appeared in any version.


> move A a" or "fossil move A\w a\w", but that just gave me a "cannot rename
> … to … since another file named … is currently under management" error
> message.


That's because of the case-insensitivity - those are equivalent which
case-sensitivity is off.

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