In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:46:25 -0400, Stephen
Leake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
stephen_leake> There are a couple of issues here.
stephen_leake>
stephen_leake> First, mtn should use a case-insensitive file name
stephen_leake> compare. More precisely, it should use whatever file
stephen_leake> name compare the actual file system uses; that may be a
stephen_leake> case-sensitive NFS on Windows, for example. That would
stephen_leake> require a standard API for checking file name equality;
stephen_leake> is there such a thing? Trying to actually create two
stephen_leake> files and seeing if an error results would work, but
stephen_leake> probably be too slow.
I don't know about such an API, and either way it wouldn't help you.
If the files FOO and foo are two different files, I don't see why they
should be treated the same. The issue isn't really with monotone,
it's much bigger. You run into similar kinds of trouble with ftp.
stephen_leake> Second, why does 'update' care if some files are
stephen_leake> missing? They will be restored or not as appropriate by
stephen_leake> the update anyway. In the current use case, this check
stephen_leake> just gets in the way. I'll start another thread for
stephen_leake> that.
No, 'update' doesn't restore files, it merges changes into files that
exist in the workspace. If that change is a rename, it needs the
original file to perform the rename. If the change is a few added
lines somewhere, it needs the original file (which might have been
changed in the workspace as well) to make that change.
Cheers,
Richard
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