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Re: Filenames with Win32 special characters (or: Interix filename compatibility)
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:06:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Filenames with Win32 special characters (or: Interix filename compatibility)
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 29 17:01, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Jul 29 12:06, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > > 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. [...]
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > But you have control over the user's CYGWIN variable? Other than that,
> > > you can check if you have a case-insensitivity compatible repository
> > > by examining the CVS/Entries file. You could also check out on a
> > > case-sensitive FS and test the file names.
> >
> > I have control over my own CYGWIN variable, and with it I can check if our
> > repository is not friendly to case-insensitive filesystems.
> >
> > So now we have to write extra scripts. Joy...
>
> Igor, we mentioned more than once over the last couple of years that the
> check_case stuff was a really bad hack at the best of times. It was
> added 7 years ago specificially for a customer who complained about
> having no real case-sensitivity. We couldn't easily add case-sensitivity
> to Cygwin back then so we created this awkward compromise. But we can
> have case-sensitivity now so there's really no good reason to stick to
> this awkward hack. Is that unreasonable?
Not unreasonable. But the option was just so darn convenient. Now we'll
have to come up with solutions that would work on any case-insensitive
filesystem...
Igor
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