Re: Renaming files on win32

On Dec 21, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Kevin Williams wrote:

> Scott Palmer wrote:
>> On Dec 21, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Gili wrote:
>>> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:02:22 +0100, Thomas Kindler wrote:
>>>
>>>  > I think the best way to handle this would be to add a new property
>>>  >(e.g. svn:nocasefiles or something) for folders that prevents the
>>>  >addition of case-problematic files.
>>>
>> +1 from me.
>> I think case-sensitive filesystem are user unfriendly in general, but 
>> of course they are out there (on unix only as far as I can tell, Mac, 
>> Windows, OS/2, Amiga, etc... all were case-preserving but 
>> case-insensitive).
>> The point is case-insensitive, case-preserving filesystems are hugely 
>> popular and deserve better support.
>> Scott
>
> I seem to have a different perspective. Perhaps it's a server-side 
> developer view rather than client-side developer, I don't know.
>
> It seems to me that Windows is losing popularity

That can only be a good thing :).  But it is still the dominant market 
by a long shot.

>  and Mac OS X is UNIX-based (did they retain the pre-OS X file naming?)

No.   The OS X path separator is '/' not ':'.  But the default 
filesystem IS case-insensitive, case-preserving, unlike traditional 
unix.

>  and OS/2 and Amiga are rarely used.

agreed.  Just pointing out that unix is actually the odd-ball in terms 
of using a case-sensitive filesystem.

Scott