Re: updating Entries files only

[Frederic Brehm]

How about renaming the *repository* directory ABC to abc? Try it (in a copy of 
the repository) and see if it breaks anything that you care about.

Fred

Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
> * On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:31:33PM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote:
>  
>
> > If you get into that situation, then the solution is to (a) go rap
> > somebody's knuckles, then (b) fix the collision in the repository.
>
>
> Well, renaming ABC/ to abc/ was a deliberate decision as all directories
> should be lowercase on our side. We did not know that CVS has such a
> problem with this.
>
> Removing ABC/ from the repository would break history and the ability to
> build old versions, thus, it is out of question. Yes, we use co -P,
> thus, I would have assumed that ABC/ is already gone before abc/ is
> tried to be checked out. Anyway, this is not the case.
>
> IMHO, this is a CVS bug, isn't it?
>
>
> > > If you want to use cvs, you HAVE to fiddle around with the Entries
> > > file.
>
>
> > I would disagree completely with that statement.
>
>
> I'm sorry, this statement was not meant as it seems to be. It's my
> fault, I should have formulated it more precisely.
>
> Thus, I reformulate:
>
>   IN THIS SITUATION [given above], if you want to use cvs, you HAVE to
>   fiddle around with the Entries file [because CVS will not work
>   otherwise].
>
> Regards,
>    Spiro.

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Frederic W. Brehm, Sarnoff Corporation, http://www.sarnoff.com/