Re: capitalization in filenames -- bad bug
On Apr 12, 8:52 pm, kerri miller ke...@vholdr.com wrote: Working in the web world, I'm constantly annoyed by the Mac not understanding that capitalized versions of letters are NOT the same as their lower-case counterparts :S My guess is that this is an OS issue this might be gruesome to code defensively for. -k- This is not an OS issue – it's a feature. Logically, most lay-people will assume DaVe = dave = Dave and the Mac has always been intended as the computer for the rest of us. It's intended behaviour. The HFS+ filesystem used by default on Macs is case insensitive. Simple fact. So, therefore I can't understand how this is not a bug with handling case insensitivity and how things have become deleted. Does the repository reside on a case sensitive remote server? -jp --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Versions group. To post to this group, send email to versions@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to versions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: capitalization in filenames -- bad bug
On Apr 12, 8:27 pm, bigbadotis bigbado...@gmail.com wrote: Today I changed some filenames to have lowercase letters instead of uppercase. When I launched Versions, it showed the files as missing. I deleted the broken aliases with the intent of adding the new files. But Versions then went ahead and actually deleted the files that it had previously claimed it couldn't find. Awesome. Many hours of work lost. This is a pretty bad bug and I am pissed right now. Basically, if it says that it can't find a file in the GUI, Versions shouldn't be able to then go and delete a file that has the same name with different capitalization off your hard drive. They're not even in the trash. Just gone. I hope that you mean that you used svn to rename those files otherwise versions will see the old files as missing and the new ones as files that aren't under svn control. It isn't clear to me from your description what you did but it doesn't sound like a bug in Versions. /Michael --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Versions group. To post to this group, send email to versions@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to versions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: capitalization in filenames -- bad bug
On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:54 PM, msalmonse wrote: On Apr 12, 9:52 pm, kerri miller ke...@vholdr.com wrote: On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:27 AM, bigbadotis wrote: Today I changed some filenames to have lowercase letters instead of uppercase. When I launched Versions, it showed the files as missing. I deleted the broken aliases with the intent of adding the new files. But Versions then went ahead and actually deleted the files that it had previously claimed it couldn't find. Working in the web world, I'm constantly annoyed by the Mac not understanding that capitalized versions of letters are NOT the same as their lower-case counterparts :S I started working with web servers in 1993 and I have never encountered a web server that ignored the case of a file name. Of course I am also one of those that feel that life is too short for IIS. Windows reveals it's CP/M origins in ignoring case, something that I have never understood. Don't know what to tell ya - the LAMP stack on my MacPro ignores file case. Annoying, but I've never bother to investigate or fix it. *shrug* (1993? Which month? You /might/ have more experience than I ;) ) Basically, if it says that it can't find a file in the GUI, Versions shouldn't be able to then go and delete a file that has the same name with different capitalization off your hard drive. They're not even in the trash. Just gone. My guess is that this is an OS issue this might be gruesome to code defensively for. Not my guess. Ok... so besides waving your e-penis, do you /have/ a suggestion for this user? -k- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Versions group. To post to this group, send email to versions@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to versions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
