On Jul 30, 2010, at 03:30, Bert Huijben wrote: > All 'svn' operations normalize the casing of passed filenames to their > on-disk casing on case insensitive systems. (I'm not 100% sure if this works > this way on Mac/OS, but it does on Windows > > So if there is some 'aLIGN.c' on disk and you pass 'svn rm align.c', 'svn' > translates that to 'svn rm aLIGN.c' before it passes it into the library. So > the real handler of the delete never sees that you passed different paths. > (This is done in svn_client_args_to_target_array() -> > svn_opt__arg_canonicalize_path())
No, none of that appears to happen, at least not on my Mac. Take a look at this transcript of Subversion 1.6.12 on Mac OS X 10.6.4 x86_64 on a case-insensitive journaled Mac OS X Extended (HFS+) filesystem: $ svnadmin create repo $ svn co file://$(pwd)/repo wc Checked out revision 0. $ touch wc/file $ svn add wc/FiLe A wc/FiLe $ svn ci -m "" wc Adding wc/FiLe Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1. $ svn co file://$(pwd)/repo wc2 A wc2/FiLe Checked out revision 1. $ ls wc/ wc2/ wc/: file wc2/: FiLe $ svn rm wc2/file $ svn st wc2/ ! wc2/FiLe $
