Slapping your colleagues around is not a good solution :)

If a repository out of your control, there is not a good solution for
this on osX that I'm aware of. I'm hoping someone will find one.

I work around it by mounting a linux filesystem via nfs, and checking
out onto that volume. I work on websites so this is an easy option for
me.


On Jan 4, 7:50 am, Quinn Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is probably because HFS+ (the default file system for OS X) is 
> case-preserving, but not case-sensitive. This means that filenames that 
> differ only in capitalization are considered to be the same. Although this 
> works on Linux, it is poor practice to name files this way, not only because 
> developers can easily confuse the files, but also because it causes such 
> issues with non-case-sensitive filesystems. Your best bet is to remove all 
> such near-identical filenames by renaming one of the pair, and slap the 
> developers who named the files that way on the wrist.  :-)  (Then explain why 
> it's a bad idea.)
>
>  - Quinn
>
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Jason wrote:
>
> > Hey,
>
> > I have a problem and have diagnosed it as a name conflict. However,
> > this appears to be working fine for the developers that use Linux. The
> > problem is as follows. There are a number of instances in the
> > application where there are near identical filenames. For example.
>
> > swfupload.js
> > Swfupload.js
>
> > verdana.swf
> > Verdana.swf
>
> > When versions hits these files it throws a wobbly, says it cannot
> > write file and stops the export. If I try to run the update afterwards
> > it says that the file is locked. Is there a setting to overcome this
> > issue?
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