Re: Change of CVS source directories

[wadesworld]

On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 01:19  PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> HFS+ is not your only option in any scenario where use of an existing
> CVS repository containing case-conflicting files is likely to happen.
>
> Use a case sensitive filesystem for CVS (not just a case retentive 
> one!).

I won't get into a legthy debate, but rather than making the CVS 
distribution friendly to all file systems, the answer is "get a 
different filesystem?"

While I agree that there will be repositories that don't work on 
case-insensitive file systems, that's an issue for the maintainer of 
that repository.  As more maintainers become aware that case-insensitive 
file systems are a real possibility, many will change their repositories 
to be file-system agnostic.

While it's true the problem can be worked around, it just seems to me 
the CVS maintainers would want to be as compatible as possible, 
especially when the change is pretty easy.

Wade