Re: Case Insensitive Filesystems

[Derek Robert Price]

I think Larry & bug-cvs missed some of Mark's and my discussion about 
case-insensitive filesystems, mainly in regards to Mac OS X and how it 
can run with a case-sensitive UFS filesystem if the sysadmin is willing 
to donate a little elbow grease.

Anyhow, I just had the thought that since this is a client setting, 
perhaps it should be a global command line option defaulting as before 
(case-insensitive on Windows & Mac OS X, maybe using the build time 
detection I proposed).  This way it could be set in a .cvsrc or the 
default overridden at client build time.  This way a user who knows more 
than we do about their file system can get things correct.

This is, of course, unless somebody can propose an efficient & safe 
run-time test for case-insensitivity.  I'm currently avoiding having 
every run of CVS in client mode doing something like, "echo file 1 
>.testfile; echo file 2 >.TESTFILE; test "file 1" = `cat .testfile`;".

Derek

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