Re: Renaming files on win32

On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:44 AM, Branko Čibej wrote:

> Then there's the horrible issue of broken tools changing file case on 
> you behind your back (this tends to happen too often on Windows), 
> usually after some version of the file has alrealy been committed. SVN 
> could detect this change locally, but because of the OS/FS/locale 
> dependencies I mentioned above, we must find a way to do this 
> /without/ using strcasecmp. (Why? Because SVN uses UTF-8 internally, 
> and there's no locale-independent case-folding function).

I just thought I would point out that both Windows and Mac OS X use 
Unicode for filesystem operations, regardless of the locale.  There 
must be methods available to deal with the case-folding, since the main 
svn-supported OSes that are case-insensitive are already dealing with 
that.
Of the 3 primary OSes supported (Linux, Windows, Mac)  two of the three 
are case-preserving, case-insensitive, one is case-sensitive.  It makes 
sense to support case-sensitivity as a subset of case-preserving, but 
not at the expense of crippling the other two major platforms.

The thread is about renaming on case-preserving case-insensitive 
filesystems.  Does anyone disagree that such an operation should work 
as expected by users of those filesystems?  We really didn't need for 
the discussion to go on for so long.  We all know that there are 
incompatibilities between the two systems, those have to be dealt with 
regardless... but the rename operation should "just work" if there is 
no conflicting file already in the repository.

Scott