Everyone, I just removed the lowercase enforcement from our repository. If win clients start leaving broken stub files in our repository, we'll need to reexamine this issue.
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:59, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:12, Manfred Schuler wrote: > > You should not force all filenames (except Makefile) to lowercase. > > Some kernel modules have uppercase letters in their names. > > Also the README files are typically in uppercase. > > An X terminal dist would have big problems with that rule. > > I believe this was done to address the following problem: > Introduction to SourceForge.net Project CVS Services > https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=768&group_id=1 > Case Sensitivity > When a developer performs certain types of CVS operations, > specifically "cvs add" and "cvs remove", CVS checks the listing > of already-deleted files for that directory (i.e. the files in > the Attic for that directory) to see if there is a match of the > same filename. There is a difference between what MS > Windows-based systems consider a match and what case-sensitive > operating systems, such as Linux (which is used to provide the > project CVS services), see as a match in these cases. If the > filename match does not occur on the server, but there would be > a case-insensitive match, the Windows-based CVS client will > abort its operation and leave a broken stub file within the > repository, which must be removed by SourceForge.net staff. -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
