Case sensitivity

[Talden]

Here I am being a top-posting sheep...

It's important to understand (and I'm sure Alexander understands this
point) that this is not so much a bug, as a design decision.  It is
also not an unusual limitation of VCS software either (CVS,
Subversion, ...) - and AFAIK a universal limitation for any VCS
intended for platform interoperability.  It might be worth looking to
see if a bug has been filed (and hopefully noted as an enhancement) to
see what other dialogue exists on the topic.

Consider that enhancing Bazaar for this is non-trivial.  It will
complicate the interpretation of historical revisions (and I expect
commit meta-data would be needed to differentiate new revisions from
old) and face issues reverting correctly to an earlier tree.
Additionally, this enhancement would introduce a case-related
evil-twin problem for case-sensitive file-systems attempting to work
with repositories that expect case-insensitivity - at the least this
would complicate the UI.

Personally, though I'm a Windows encumbered developer (Heavy
Encumbered, half-speed), I think it would be better for these tools to
stick with case-sensitive file-system as it dramatically simplifies
implementation and only rarely do applications on case-insensitive
file-systems change the case of files without user intervention - far
better that those few applications are compelled to be fixed.

--
Talden.

2009/8/31 Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>:
> This is known problem with bzr on Windows and it still has no solution.
>
> Larry Drews пишет:
>>
>> I am a novice user of bzr using bzr 1.16.1.  I am doing development work
>> on a bunch of files from a StarTeam repository.  I want to use bzr to keep
>> track of my local changes and history.
>>
>> However, I am running into a problem with filename case sensitivity.  The
>> filenames from StarTeam are not uniform, their case usage is all over the
>> map.  I have ended up with two files in the bzr repository that differ only
>> in case usage.
>>
>> How can I manage this situation with bzr?  Is there some configuration
>> setting that will cause bzr to ignore and preserve case usage?  How can I
>> repair the bzr repository so that itemmain.pas and ITEMMAIN.PAS share the
>> same history?
>>
>> I have already done some google searches on the subject but have no joy.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Larry Drews
>> TheSoftwareRonin