[cvsnt] Re: Problems updating when modules differ only in case (2.0.51d)

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Sep 3 11:20:50 BST 2004


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Lionello Lunesu wrote:

> But wait, the "Entries" file in the cvs dirs also had the casing of the 
> wrong module!? How can this be? SourceForge is using *nix so the problem 
> must be at the client side.
> 
The problem is actually on the server - having two modules with the same 
name.

This simply cannot work if there are Windows clients - CVS tries to 
preserve case but people *will* rename directories, and directories in 
CVS aren't versioned in the same way as files.

It's up to the admin of the sourceforge project to remove the bogus 
module, or simply accept he will have no contributors running Windows 
machines (or OSX machines, as they are case insensitive too).

Tony



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