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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 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.
Igor
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