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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by ben curthoys <bc...@artifax.net> on 2004/12/20 16:04:21 UTC
case sensitivity
i'm using subversion to manage the source code for a vb project.
of the many unhelpful things that vb does, the one that causes me
trouble is to do with case sensitivity and variable names.
vb is case insensitive, so
dim X as long
x = 5
is fine, but to be helpful it auto corrects your code so that if you did
type
dim X as long
and then
x = 5
it would change the last line to
X = 5
which makes sense, as you could never mean x to be different from X.
no problem there. except SOMETIMES, it changes the declaration and all
the instances, just to be extra helpful, so that when you type
x = 5
the declaration gets changed to
dim x as 5
and all the Xs in the code become xs.
when this happens, i get thousands of spurious changes in the source
files, and occasionally pointless clashes, and it generally makes my
life a misery.
changing programming language is not an option. sadly. but what would
help would be for some way of telling Subversion that case is
"unimportant" to me - that if there is ever a clash in which one change
is ONLY a change of case, then please ignore it, just take the
interesting change.
advice/sympathy/workaround/agreement that it might be worth logging as a
change request?
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