On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > The Subversion 1.7 release notes say: > > http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#windows-case-change > >> Changing case of file and directory names on Windows >> >> Subversion on Windows now fully supports changing the case of file and >> directory names. No more special workarounds, a simple 'svn mv file.java >> File.java' just does the right thing. > > Is this fix really Windows-specific, or is this also now fixed on OS X and > other systems with case-insensitive filesystems?
I think it's only supported on Windows + case-insensitve fs. I've been working on this issue during the 1.7 release cycle, and I know that it depends on APR support for "truepath-conversion" (being able to convert a given path to the actual on-disk path). And AFAIU there is no support for this in APR for OSX (because nobody has stepped up yet to actually implement this -- volunteers welcome of course). But I'm not completely sure that this means it won't work on OSX + case-insensitive fs. Maybe, in the absence of truepath-conversion, it already "just works", without jumping through hoops ... I'm not a Mac user myself, so I can't test this. Can anyone check this? I thought OSX + case-insensitive was not a very common setup (i.e. that it's mostly set up with a case-sensitive filesystem). But maybe I'm wrong, I really don't know. -- Johan