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From: "Hughes, Bill" <Bill DOT Hughes AT cox DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: RE: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:24:15 +0100
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From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak Sent: 22 July 2004 16:49

..snip..

> OK, the problem is with CVS - the managed mounts are working properly.
> CVS assumes Cygwin is/runs on a case-insensitive (file)system, which is 
> usually the case. On managed mounts, however, the assumption fails, and 
> CVS complains about conflicts in file names that do not exist. (I 
> thought this was clear from the original post, but apparently, that was 
> not the case..)
ObNitPick:
NTFS _is_ case sensititve, but Windows isn't.
If you use the native API you can create foo.bar and FOO.BAR in the same
directory.
And probably give yourself a massive headache if you want to use windows
tools.

> Yes, the problem is with CVS, not with Cygwin. Personally, I though the 
> first paragraph of the original post made that clear - apparently, it 
> didn't, so I apologize.
OT but possibly of interest, case-sensitivity (or otherwise) and how to
handle it has been a topic of some heated debate on the subversion and
tortoisesvn maling lists on and off. Consensus on how to handle this has
proved, shall we say, 'elusive'.

Bill

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