Re: same upper and lower case directory name?

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Yes, so long as you never check out ^/ or ^/tags/ (ie, parents of the
"QA"-"qa" clash).

Les Mikesell wrote on Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 15:57:58 -0600:
> We have a project with some with paths like tags/QA/ that were
> created manually - for a mostly windows application.   Now we'd like
> to start using an automated tagging process that wants to make
> tags/qa/ (all lower) consistently across projects.  The repository
> resides on a linux server.   Is it possible for these pathnames to
> co-exist without confusing case-insensitive clients?
> 
> -- 
>Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com


Re: same upper and lower case directory name?

2013-02-19 Thread Geoff Hoffman
Les,

I would guess the answer is no. We've had issues on both Mac and Windows
with case sensitivity, unfortunately.

It's not a problem with Subversion, per se, but with the underlying file
system of case insensitive systems.





On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Les Mikesell  wrote:

> We have a project with some with paths like tags/QA/ that were
> created manually - for a mostly windows application.   Now we'd like
> to start using an automated tagging process that wants to make
> tags/qa/ (all lower) consistently across projects.  The repository
> resides on a linux server.   Is it possible for these pathnames to
> co-exist without confusing case-insensitive clients?
>
> --
>Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>

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