[MERGE] Fix case-sensitivity detection

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu Nov 29 15:32:17 GMT 2007


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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> DeeJay wrote:
>> "there doesn't appear to be any bug about
>> the fact that filenames differing only in case prevented checkouts from
>> working on Windows."
> 
>> That might be because the error messages produced are obscure and misleading.
> 
> Yes, and that's a separate bug that should be addressed.
> 
>> I'm pleased to see this issue being addressed. The fact that it is possible to
>> perform a commit which effectively renders the branch incapable of being
>> transformed back into a working tree on the same machine
> 
> I wasn't aware that could happen.  I thought the problem was only with
> commits on case-sensitive filesystems being checked out on
> case-insensitive ones.
> 
> How do you do that?
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 

You could do something like:
bzr add Foo
bzr add foo

And have it add 2 copies of the same file under different names.

John
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