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Re: cvs windows 2000 case sensitivity issue
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David Everly |
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Re: cvs windows 2000 case sensitivity issue |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:16:42 -0700 |
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:21:55AM MST, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> If your Windows 2000 client is using FAT or FAT32 as the filesystem, then
> no, because the internal representation of the filename is case insensitive,
> and stored as all upper. If the filesystem is NTFS, it should work.
The windows client is on NTFS (just re-verified to be sure), but I am
still having the problem.
>
> I do a lot of cross-platform development, and Unix development using Windows
> clients. It try to use all lower for directory names especially, as this
> type of issue crops up regularly. It seems to be less of a problem with
> filenames.
I agree with this policy recommendation.
>
> - Brian
>
> > Our cvs pserver is on Solaris. A cvs client is on windows 2000.
> > We are using the latest version for both server and client.
> >
> > Initially, we had a directory in all uppercase (SOMEDIRECTORY). We
> > did cvs remove -f of all the files in that directory followed by cvs
> > commit. Then we made a different directory (SomeDirectory), copied
> > files into that directory, then did cvs add SomeDirectory, cvs add of
> > the files inside that directory, followed by cvs commit.
> >
> > Unfortunately on the windows client, we now get SOMEDIRECTORY filled
> > with files when doing cvs checkout of the module containing
> > SOMEDIRECTORY.
> >
> > The .cvsrc file on the client contains:
> >
> > cvs -q -z3
> > tag -c
> > update -P -d
> > checkout -P
> >
> > For historical reasons, we would like to keep both directory names
> > (SOMEDIRECTORY for previous releases, SomeDirectory for current and
> > future releases).
> >
> > This seems to be possible on a Unix client, but is it possible in a
> > windows client, where we don't need to have the two directories
> > existing simultaneously?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave.
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
> >
>
>
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