Re: Renaming files on win32

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:34:03 -0500, Scott Palmer wrote:

>
>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.

	+1 for solving use-cases we know should just work and moving on
to edge cases later on.

Gili