Re: Setting up a new CVSNT or Linux server ??

[Frederic Brehm]

At 08:46 PM 7/21/2004, Pierre Asselin wrote:
> Frederic Brehm <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > [ case-sensitive client with case-insensitive server]
> > In your scenario, it appears to me that the only failure comes with the
> > CVSNT server and UNIX client. In that case, the user knows that there are
> > two separate files "file" and "File" in the directory and CVS should be
> > able to add both but it refuses.
>
> But allowing the add would be worse for the developers on
> case-insensitive clients.  For them, the next update would yield
> endless messages to "move File, it is in the way".

You are presuming a particular process model which is not universally true. 
Therefore, allowing the add is not, a priori, bad.

Is anyone here old enough to remember the phrase "The whole world is not a 
VAX"?



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