On Oct 21, 2011, at 03:17, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > 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?
It doesn't work: $ sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.4.11 BuildVersion: 8S165 $ svn --version | head -n 2 svn, version 1.7.0 (r1176462) compiled Oct 20 2011, 04:25:50 $ cd /tmp $ svnadmin create repo $ svn co file:///tmp/repo wc $ cd wc $ touch foo $ svn add foo A foo $ svn ci -m "add" Adding foo Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1. $ svn mv foo FOO svn: E155007: Path '/private/tmp/wc/FOO' is not a directory $ > 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. Nope, all Macs ever made, from the Macintosh 128K 27 years ago right through current Macs with the latest OS X, have used case-insensitive filesystems by default. Several popular OS X GUI apps, especially by big publishers like Microsoft and Adobe, have at times had case errors in their apps, such that if you use a case-sensitive filesystem, these apps won't work right. Use of case-sensitive filesystems is not recommended on OS X. There are some esoteric exceptions. For example, before Lion, if you had an Xsan filesystem, it was case-sensitive. (With Lion, these are case-insensitive by default too.)
