[Mono-dev] SVN case conflict

[Gena]

On 11/10/05, Ben Maurer <bmaurer at ximian.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 12:20 +0100, Gena wrote:
> > > Hello, I'm trying to checkout the SVN trunk for mono in my Windows XP
> > > box, but there is one file that has the same name Upper and Lower
> > > case, this makes conflict and I get an error and can't continue with
> > > TortoiseSVN.
> > >
> > > I found some solutions for this [1] but all of them in the server
> > > side, I think for compatibility the best is don't have
> > > same-name-different-case files, this also happens with MacOS X [2]
> > >
> > > Anyway, the files are not from the source code:
> > > svn://svn.myrealbox.com/source/trunk/website/newsitems/jun-28.html
> > > svn://svn.myrealbox.com/source/trunk/website/newsitems/Jun-28.html
> > > (Note the j/J in the name)
> > >
> > > [1] http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/?q=case_conflict_solution
> > > [2] http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=667
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Rodrigo Queipo.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Saludos,
> > > Rodrigo.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Rodrigo, thanks for the links, did you solve the problem? Is there
> > another solution to fix it on a client side (i.e. provide some SVN
> > configuration file to skip these files during update)?
> >
> > Please anybody delete the *website/newsitems/Jun-28.html* file :).
> >
> > I guess it would be the best if someone will install in the repository
> > something like sripts in [1] which will prevent SVN server to create 2
> > files different only by case.
>
> FYI, there is no reason to check out /trunk/. You will get way too much
> stuff. You should check out /trunk/mcs, /trunk/mono, etc.
> There are a few scripts that would be nice to put for some quick error
> checking. For example, I'd really like one that forbids new text files
> that aren't svn:eol-style=native. In a similar vein, it'd be great to
> have one that forbids users from adding \r\n lines to a file that is
> completely \n. It's more a matter of us having time to QA and in some
> cases write the scripts.

Thanks for pointing out, I will do this for my update scripts, there
are actually only a few project which are interesting for me. But it
is also interesting just to see what is happening in the repository
with all projects in trunk ;).


Also Zoltan has already *deleted* the file that caused an error so
there shoud be no problems now.

--
Gena

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> -- Ben
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