Case sensitivity

[Alexander Belchenko]

Larry Drews пишет:
> Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote in
> news:m2ocpw9jv0.fsf at free.fr: 
> 
>>>>>>> "LD" == Larry Drews <ldrewsNOSPAM at thesoftwareronin.com> writes:
>>     LD> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote in
>>     news:h7ggaf$b4h$1 LD> @ger.gmane.org:
>>
>>     >> 
>>     >> Actually bzr has very good support for renames, and if you
>>     >> treat change of case as rename (even implicit) and you commit
>>     >> this rename explicitly, then there is no history hell as you
>>     >> describe it. 
>>
>> I thought we had some support for that, I even say Mark Hammond
>> worked pretty hard in that area, am I misremembering or did a
>> patch to that effect never land ?
>>
>>     >> 
>>     >> So any interaction with windows file system should be done only
>>     >> on a working tree level.
>>     >> 
>>     >> 
>>     >> Alexander
>>     >> 
>>
>>     LD> OK, so a working practical approach is as follows:
>>
>>     LD> 1.  When I acquire the source files and before adding them to
>>     Bazaar, make LD> all of the source filenames lowercase.
>>
>>     LD> 2.  If, inadvertently, a filename changes case, use bzr rename
>>     to keep the LD> history stitched together.
>>
>>     LD> 3.  If I am trying to track a StarTeam repository, good luck.
>>
>> The point I don't understand is how you end up having files in
>> different cases registered into bzr if you're using starteam.
>>
>> 1) Do you try to track different starteam views with different
>>    bzr branches ?
>>
>> 2) Under which circumstances do you end up with the same file
>>    under a different case ? As fa as I recall Starteam doesn't
>>    output random case, I even say it acts as case preserving
>>    (i.e. always outputting the case under which the file was
>>    first added, but I may misremember here, it's been a while).
>>
>> I'm pretty sure bzr should at least warn you if a file case is
>> changed, so if you can come with a recipe to reproduce your
>> problem, we certainly want to get it fixed.
>>
>>          Vincent
>>
>>
> 
> Vincent,
> 
> Thanks for the follow up.  I am gratified at the response from the Bazaar 
> team.
> 
> I have to confess, I don't exactly know how I got into the situation that 
> I found myself.  All of a sudden I had itemmain.pas in the repository and 
> ITEMMAIN.PAS in the working tree.  Bazaar reported itemmain.pas missing 
> and couldn't find ITEMMAIN.PAS.  Not knowing enough about Bazaar yet, I'm 
> pretty certain I screwed up the repository trying to correct the 
> situation.  I finally gave up, deleted the repository, renamed the files 
> to lower case, and started over.  Of course I lost some history, but 
> fortunately I am at the place where that was not a major problem.
> 
> I will try to isolate the steps that led up to the problem and report 
> them.

Check your editor as well. Some (not very good) editors) sometimes 
"normalize" filename case.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Larry Drews
> TheSoftwareRonin
> 
> 
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