But how is someone supposed to know on an import whether the case of their
files is messed up? Do the import, check it out somewhere, notice the error,
do a bunch of "cvs remove" commands, ...?
Is there any way "cvs import" could check if there are similarly-named files
already in a tree? I know everyone hates more options, but I can't think of
a workaround (other than checkout the existing project and do my own name
compare). There isn't a "importinfo" hook, is there?
Handle this outside of
CVS.
It is a good idea for any build system to have a
BOM
(Bill of Materials). There should be a build rule
that
ensures that all
files in the BOM are present (with
the correct
filename capitalization). Optionally, have a
rule
that deletes any
files that are not explicitly listed in
the
BOM.
I call the latter
"make cleanest".
It is pretty
similar to the "make clean" that most
people know, that
removes *.o, etc.,
but BOM directed
"make cleanest"
cleans up a lot better than *.o type
heuristics.
