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Re: Filenames with Win32 special characters (or: Interix filename compatibility)


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.

Or is there another way to detect that this happens?
	Igor
P.S. Sorry for the delay -- I was away from email for a while.
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