X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <49AEBC8F.4050601@acm.org> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:38:23 -0800 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Renaming issue, changing case only. References: <200903032026.n23KQB8n013457@mail.pdinc.us> <49ADFA29.3000702@acm.org> <49ADFDF4.5090209@acm.org> <20090304084540.GY10046@calimero.vinschen.de> <49AEB199.7070308@acm.org> <20090304165907.GG10046@calimero.vinschen.de> In-reply-to: <20090304165907.GG10046@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/4/2009 8:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 08:51, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 3/4/2009 12:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Cygwin 1.7 itself has no problems to rename a file just case-wise, >>> neither under casesensitive mount points nor under caseinsensitive >>> mount points. This looks like a problem in svn. >> Or it's a problem with the operator. :-) Seems I wasn't actually running >> in Cygwin 1.7 when I thought I was. Plus, I was using a /cygdrive path >> with case-sensitivity turned off. >> >> I will retry again today with a proper 1.7 environment. If this works >> with 1.7, I'm not going to try to patch svn for 1.5. Otherwise, I'll >> investigate further. > > Well, even for 1.7, it *should* work when not using case-sensitivity. > Most people will probably continue to use case-insensitive settings. > Not everyone want or is allowed to tweak this registry setting. Fair enough. Subversion has lots of problems with case-insensitive file systems. These problems are not specific to Cygwin -- they occur with the Windows-native tools and on OSX. It is WAY beyond my abilities to try to fix these. It goes beyond just doing a trick for a rename. There is a hope that a redesign of the "working copy" library, possibly in the 1.7 release, will address these issues. Anyone interested in seeing this fixed on Cygwin should contribute to Subversion upstream development. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org I don't want to be young again, I just don't want to get any older. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/