[cvsnt] Case Sensitivity when Migrating from UNIX to Windows

Peter Crowther Peter.Crowther at melandra.com
Wed Apr 14 17:20:48 BST 2004


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> From: Jake Hughes [mailto:jhughes at accentopto.com] 
> I am not aware of any way
> to add case sensitivity to Windows 2003, but I wanted to put 
> the question to the group hoping somone else has come across this.

NTFS preserves case but is case-insensitive.  This is wired in a long
way down the filesystem code, and I'm not aware of any ways of changing
it.  FAT16 and FAT32 long filenames have the same property, plus it's
not advised to run CVSNT (or, in my opinion, anything else!) on them.

I think you're out of luck, Jake - unless you want to modify the CVSNT
code to do something really screwy like mangle names on the way into and
out of the repository.  Cheaper and more reliable to rename the files...

		- Peter



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