issue 1495: case sensitivity on windows

[brian sharon <pu...@pobox.com>]

I spotted this in the bite-sized tasks list, and didn't see any more 
info about what had been tried or what the plan of attack was.  I would 
really like to help fix this problem, as it's something that would 
likely cause me headaches when deploying Subversion (and I'm very 
excited about deploying Subversion).

After a cursory glance at the code, I wonder if the solution to this 
problem could be as simple as fixing svn_path_canonicalize() to return 
correctly-cased paths on Windows?  Or is that a road that's been 
traveled down before?

--brian

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Re: issue 1495: case sensitivity on windows

[Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>]

brian sharon wrote:

> I spotted this in the bite-sized tasks list, and didn't see any more
> info about what had been tried or what the plan of attack was.  I
> would really like to help fix this problem, as it's something that
> would likely cause me headaches when deploying Subversion (and I'm
> very excited about deploying Subversion).
>
> After a cursory glance at the code, I wonder if the solution to this
> problem could be as simple as fixing svn_path_canonicalize() to return
> correctly-cased paths on Windows?  Or is that a road that's been
> traveled down before?

Your glance must have been very cursory indeed, because we _already_ do
what you suggest. :-)

Unfortunately, it's not enough. Mike Pilato's summing up in the issue is
accurate. And because we want to solve otehr case sensitivity problems
(not the least of which is the famous case-only rename), I think this
issue doesn't really belong in the bite-sized list.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <br...@xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/

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