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Re: cvs available for test


I forgot to give a viable solution to the problem.  Use CVS's hooks to do a
case-insensitive compare for new filenames to make sure they're unique.  As for
the CVS subdirectories,you can have them be .CVS (or whatever suits your taste)
by editing config.h or cvs.h (I forget exactly which one).

Noel




Noel L Yap
2000.08.01 08:27

To:   cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
cc:   Cygwin@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com, Kirben@Bigfoot.Com
Subject:  Re: cvs available for test  (Document link not converted)

That would be a really bad idea.  I use Cygwin executables on file systems that
can fully support upper- and lower-case filenames.

Noel



cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on 2000.08.01 00:38:06

To:   cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, kirben@bigfoot.com
cc:   (bcc: Noel L Yap)
Subject:  Re: cvs available for test




Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> --Forwarded to the list for Travis Howell <kirben@bigfoot.com>--
>
> Any chance of making cvs avoid/skip directory/file names not allowed
> under
> Windows ? one CVS I know (eggdrop1.5) uses an AUX directory so cvs under
> cygwin fails to work with it.
> Check out http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/6/54.ASP
>

Well, that's a filesystem issue and is really beyond the scope of what I
was trying to do. Is it possible that cygwin's file access functions
should transparently munge these troublesome, illegal names -- aux, prn,
etc? Or is that a really really bad idea?

--Chuck

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