file name case sensitivity

John Williams jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au
Fri Feb 28 03:22:00 GMT 2003


Gerald S. Williams wrote:
[snip]

> But as I said, this is OT for Cygwin. Even if it is added to
> Cygwin, it will almost certainly not be the default behavior.
> But for people like me trying to maintain Cygwin versions of
> Unix projects, it could be a real boon.

Indeed.  In my case, it would require modifications to cygwin's CVS 
tools, to use these special case sensitive semantics.  CVS puking on a 
sync operation was the first sign that anything was amiss for me.

Regards,

John



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