Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum

[Andy Jones]

FWIW It seems to me that that Steve McIntyre is correct - it's not fair to 
expect CVS to resolve a fundamental feature of its underlying OS.
If this is a problem, it should be fixed there, not here.

Historically I think the choice was between a case-insensitive and 
case-sensitive file system - the latter was obviously better.  The idea of 
a case-insensitive, case-preserving file system is quite a recent one.  It 
*is* a nice idea, but we have to play the cards we've already been dealt.

Andy Jones
Tapestry Software


At 03:34 pm 5/11/03, Derek Robert Price wrote:
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> |It sounds like I'm going to be the sole dissenting voice here, at least so
> |far. Let me explain my reasoning; it will be rather round-about, but please
> |bear with me. It will (I hope) make sense in the end.
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> [. . . snip . . .]
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> |It won't be easy, and I'm sure the problem is rather complex, but I truly
> |believe the end results *will* be worth the extra effort involved.
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> Are you volunteering to maintain this code?  I'm getting sick of it.  :)
>
> Seriously, case-philosophies aside, we could remove the handling from
> CVS and anyone sharing your beliefs could still install a
> case-insensitive file system on a UNIX server and put their CVS
> repository there to get the behaviour you want.
>
> As it stands, Windows users will only get the behavior you prefer
> _sometimes_, since as long as the repository exists on a case sensitive
> file system, files with "conflicting case" can still exist in the
> repository.
>
> I don't think the overhead for such a small gain, the worth of which is
> completely dependant on personal case-philosophy, and which system
> administrators can configure according to their own personal
> case-philosophy, is worth it.
>
> Derek
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