Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum
Derek Robert Price <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim.Hyslop wrote: |It sounds like I'm going to be the sole dissenting voice here, at least so |far. Let me explain my reasoning; it will be rather round-about, but please |bear with me. It will (I hope) make sense in the end. [. . . snip . . .] |It won't be easy, and I'm sure the problem is rather complex, but I truly |believe the end results *will* be worth the extra effort involved. Are you volunteering to maintain this code? I'm getting sick of it. :) Seriously, case-philosophies aside, we could remove the handling from CVS and anyone sharing your beliefs could still install a case-insensitive file system on a UNIX server and put their CVS repository there to get the behaviour you want. As it stands, Windows users will only get the behavior you prefer _sometimes_, since as long as the repository exists on a case sensitive file system, files with "conflicting case" can still exist in the repository. I don't think the overhead for such a small gain, the worth of which is completely dependant on personal case-philosophy, and which system administrators can configure according to their own personal case-philosophy, is worth it. Derek - -- ~ *8^) Email: [email protected] Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>! - -- If virtuous, [the government] need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics. - Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/qRiOLD1OTBfyMaQRAviXAJ9AQu6x5adpkNoSEy1HV2KMyVEDCgCfdQRu BLHCsIWwqyDf8j1yJNCxoz0= =+XnW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----