Re: [RFC] Case-only renames on Windows - how to proceed?

2011-05-08 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 16:10, Johan Corveleyn jcor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Stefan Küng tortoise...@gmail.com wrote: On 03.05.2011 23:53, Greg Stein wrote: I suggest (1). Fix issue 3865 with a new

Re: [RFC] Case-only renames on Windows - how to proceed?

2011-05-08 Thread Greg Stein
On May 8, 2011 5:34 PM, Johan Corveleyn jcor...@gmail.com wrote: ... Yes, I share your concern that it might be difficult to get this finished in time for 1.7. Especially given that I'm not too familiar with the wc layer etc. I could spend _some_ time on it, but it wouldn't be very

[RFC] Case-only renames on Windows - how to proceed?

2011-05-03 Thread Johan Corveleyn
Hi all, After the discussions in [1] and [2], I'd like to know if and how to proceed with making case-only renames work on Windows (or case-insensitive filesystems in general). Following my attempted patch ([1]), I got some good feedback from brane and danielsh, but I'd like some more opinions,

Re: [RFC] Case-only renames on Windows - how to proceed?

2011-05-03 Thread Greg Stein
I suggest (1). Fix issue 3865 with a new WC API to normalize targets, usable by higher levels. That API would follow the 3-step process described at the end of the issue description. Cheers, -g On May 3, 2011 5:41 PM, Johan Corveleyn jcor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, After the discussions in