[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! .. -- there are many things in life you can be fashionably late to, but the MGM Grand Buffet is not one of them.. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs