Re: Change of CVS source directories

[Michael Schupp]

address@hidden wrote:

> 
> 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


maybe this will help you out:

   http://www.cvshome.org/docs/infomac.html

why anyone would want to take a perfectly good filesystem under sans-BSD

and munge it to  "case-insensitive/case-preserving" is totally beyond
me.
you would have to go completely out of your way!

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