Case sensitivity

[Maritza Mendez]

Aha!  Yes!  I have done this to myself several times.  I think this is
kind of scary to some of us.  At the very least it violates the
principle of least surprise.  Maybe not a huge deal but worth a FAQ.

~M




On 8/31/09, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Vincent Ladeuil пишет:
>>>>>>> "bialix" == Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:
>>
>>     bialix> Vincent Ladeuil пишет:
>>     >>>>>>> "LD" == Larry Drews <ldrewsNOSPAM at thesoftwareronin.com>
>> writes:
>>     >>
>>     LD> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote in news:h7ggaf$b4h$1
>>     LD> @ger.gmane.org:
>>     >>
>>     >> >>     >> Actually bzr has very good support for renames,
>>     >> and if you treat change     >> of case as rename (even
>>     >> implicit) and you commit this rename explicitly,     >> then
>>     >> there is no history hell as you describe it.
>>     >>
>>     >> I thought we had some support for that, I even say Mark Hammond
>>     >> worked pretty hard in that area, am I misremembering or did a
>>     >> patch to that effect never land ?
>>
>>     bialix> IIUC Mark's patch to fix `bzr add wRonGcASe.txt` has landed.
>> IIUC
>>     bialix> it was only one patch to improve this are, and very valuable
>>     bialix> nevertheless. Although it was easiest piece of the "puzzle"
>>     bialix> because add command has luxury to filter its arguments till
>> they
>>     bialix> hit dirstate.
>>
>> Thanks for helping my failing memory.
>>
>> Then I fail to understand how the same file (modulo the case) can
>> be added then, shouldn't that patch guard against that ?
>>
>> Or is there some other scenario I miss here ?
>
> IIUC:
>
> C:\Temp>bzr init 1
> Created a standalone tree (format: pack-0.92)
>
> C:\Temp\1>echo foo > foo.txt
>
>
> C:\Temp\1>bzr add FOO.txt
> adding foo.txt
>
> C:\Temp\1>bzr st
> added:
>    foo.txt
>
> C:\Temp\1>bzr ci -m "so far so good"
> Committing to: C:/Temp/1/
> added foo.txt
> Committed revision 1.
>
> C:\Temp\1>ren foo.txt FOO.TXT
>
>
> C:\Temp\1>bzr st
> removed:
>    foo.txt
> unknown:
>    FOO.TXT
>
>>
>> Or did Larry used different branches that he later merge ?
>>
>>    Vincent
>>
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