Re: Is this a bug ???

[Lee Fellows]

  Peter Kesch did not say what platform they were on or what
version of cvs they were using, but I tested with version 1.11.1p1
on a SuSE Linux 7.3 system and could not duplicate his results.  


On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:46, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:05:52PM +0200, Peter Kesch wrote:
> > to get the file added, we needed to restore the old treeMeinWissen.java and
> > to add the new file TreeMeinWissen.java while the old one exists.
> > 
> > After we added the TreeMeinWissen.java we were able to delete the other
> > file.
> > 
> > every other way caused an error in hash.c line 312 were asserts(key != NULL)
> > fails and the command were aborted.
> 
> Sounds like the hash algorithm table for filenames doesn't take case
> into account, so that your new file (the same name, ignoring case,
> as the old file) got shoved straight into the attic. (Probably worth
> checking that.) I don't see how this wouldn't be a bug.
> 
> (Note that I haven't even glanced at the code.)
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
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