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Re: Filenames with Win32 special characters (or: Interix filename compatibility)
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 29 12:06, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > On Jul 29 11:20, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I removed the CYGWIN=case_check option. This was long overdue and with
> > > > > real case-sensitivity it's entirely obsolete.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, good. My old nemesis is back. Now if I check out a project from CVS
> > > > with both X.cc and x.cc onto a case-insensitive filesystem, the first one
> > > > will just get silently overwritten, instead of producing an error.
> > >
> > > You can simply switch to case sensitivity for the path with your local
> > > CVS repository. I assume you're not using FAT exclusively...
> >
> > Yes, that would let me check out both files, but not verify that our
> > repository is compatible with case-insensitive systems... I have no
> > control over the flags the users set on their directories.
>
> But you have control over the user's CYGWIN variable? Other than that,
> you can check if you have a case-insensitivity compatible repository
> by examining the CVS/Entries file. You could also check out on a
> case-sensitive FS and test the file names.
I have control over my own CYGWIN variable, and with it I can check if our
repository is not friendly to case-insensitive filesystems.
So now we have to write extra scripts. Joy...
Igor
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