On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:21:55AM MST, Brian G. Peterson wrote: > If your Windows 2000 client is using FAT or FAT32 as the filesystem, then > no, because the internal representation of the filename is case insensitive, > and stored as all upper. If the filesystem is NTFS, it should work.
The windows client is on NTFS (just re-verified to be sure), but I am still having the problem. > > I do a lot of cross-platform development, and Unix development using Windows > clients. It try to use all lower for directory names especially, as this > type of issue crops up regularly. It seems to be less of a problem with > filenames. I agree with this policy recommendation. > > - Brian > > > Our cvs pserver is on Solaris. A cvs client is on windows 2000. > > We are using the latest version for both server and client. > > > > Initially, we had a directory in all uppercase (SOMEDIRECTORY). We > > did cvs remove -f of all the files in that directory followed by cvs > > commit. Then we made a different directory (SomeDirectory), copied > > files into that directory, then did cvs add SomeDirectory, cvs add of > > the files inside that directory, followed by cvs commit. > > > > Unfortunately on the windows client, we now get SOMEDIRECTORY filled > > with files when doing cvs checkout of the module containing > > SOMEDIRECTORY. > > > > The .cvsrc file on the client contains: > > > > cvs -q -z3 > > tag -c > > update -P -d > > checkout -P > > > > For historical reasons, we would like to keep both directory names > > (SOMEDIRECTORY for previous releases, SomeDirectory for current and > > future releases). > > > > This seems to be possible on a Unix client, but is it possible in a > > windows client, where we don't need to have the two directories > > existing simultaneously? > > > > Thanks, > > Dave. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Info-cvs mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] V-Net: 622-3286 Phone: 1-719-535-3286 Pager: 1-800-724-3624 # 140-1311 - We must get back to basics and drive operational excellence. - We must drive profitable sales and accelerate new product introductions. - We must reduce structural costs and deliver a Plan of Reorganization. - We must rebuild the organization based on accountability, teamwork and trust. --Michael Capellas () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against proprietary attachments For assistance, see: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs