[Gnu-arch-users] Case insensitive weirdness.

[David Brown]

I just ran across something that tla did on a case-insensitive machine
that was kind of weird.

I had a file src/po/en_gb.po, and its appropriate tag
src/po/.arch-ids/en_gb.po.id

I applied a patch that renamed the file to src/po/en_gb.po.  The checkin
worked fine, reporting that the file was renamed, but not that the id
file was renamed (since it wasn't).  As far as I can tell, this archive
would wouldn't be usable on a case-sensitive filesystem.

It is simple why it happens, since tla tries to read
src/po/.arch-ids/en_GB.po.id, and that reads the lowercase version of
the file.  There are probably lots of other ways I could create archives
that don't work on case-sensitive filesystems.

I don't know of any good solutions either, other than trying to convince
the two largest OS vendors in the world that case insensitive
filesystems are a bad idea.

Dave