On 3/4/2009 8:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 4 08:51, David Rothenberger wrote:
On 3/4/2009 12:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Cygwin 1.7 itself has no problems to rename a file just case-wise,
neither under casesensitive mount points nor under caseinsensitive
mount points. This looks like a problem in svn.
Or it's a problem with the operator. :-) Seems I wasn't actually running
in Cygwin 1.7 when I thought I was. Plus, I was using a /cygdrive path
with case-sensitivity turned off.
I will retry again today with a proper 1.7 environment. If this works
with 1.7, I'm not going to try to patch svn for 1.5. Otherwise, I'll
investigate further.
Well, even for 1.7, it *should* work when not using case-sensitivity.
Most people will probably continue to use case-insensitive settings.
Not everyone want or is allowed to tweak this registry setting.
Fair enough.
Subversion has lots of problems with case-insensitive file systems.
These problems are not specific to Cygwin -- they occur with the
Windows-native tools and on OSX. It is WAY beyond my abilities to try to
fix these. It goes beyond just doing a trick for a rename.
There is a hope that a redesign of the "working copy" library, possibly
in the 1.7 release, will address these issues.
Anyone interested in seeing this fixed on Cygwin should contribute to
Subversion upstream development.
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