How do I resolve this case-sensitivity problem on Windows.

Marius Kruger amanic at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 05:51:11 GMT 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Talden <talden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Below is a short sequence of commands that, on Windows results in the
> working tree always reporting removed files.  How do I fix it so that
> the files are removed in the branch and the working tree reports
> clean?
>
> NB: I know the ideal is to use "bzr mv" instead of the rename - this
> is a contrived example to simulate something that happened with a new
> vendor drop amongst thousands of files.
>
> Bazaar (bzr) 1.2.0
>  Python interpreter: X\Bazaar\python25.dll 2.5.1.final.0
>  Python standard library: X\Bazaar\lib\library.zip
>  bzrlib: X\Bazaar\lib\library.zip\bzrlib
>  Bazaar configuration: X\settings\.bzr\bazaar\2.0
>  Bazaar log file: X\My Documents\.bzr.log
>
> -------------------
> C:\test> bzr init
>
> C:\test> echo blah > Foo.txt
>
> C:\test> bzr add
> added Foo.txt
>
> C:\test> bzr commit -m "First"
> Committing to: C:/test/
> added Foo.txt
> Committed revision 1.
>
> C:\test> ren Foo.txt foo.txt
>
> C:\test> bzr st
> removed:
>  Foo.txt
> unknown:
>  foo.txt
>
> C:\test> bzr add
> added foo.txt
>
> C:\test> bzr commit -m "Second"
> Committing to: C:/test/
> added foo.txt
> Committed revision 2.
>
> C:\test> bzr st
> removed:
>  Foo.txt
> -------------------
>

I thought that you could remove them and then revert them,
so I tried it on a bzr.dev branch on my usb flash disk (FAT32),
but it did not work :(

$ bzr st
removed:
  INSTALL
  NEWS
  README
  TODO
unknown:
  install
  news
  readme
  todo

$ rm install news readme todo

$ bzr st
removed:
  INSTALL
  NEWS
  README
  TODO

$ bzr revert
 N  INSTALL
 N  NEWS
 N  README
 N  TODO

$ bzr st
removed:
  INSTALL
  NEWS
  README
  TODO
unknown:
  install
  news
  readme
  todo
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