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Re: Renaming issue, changing case only.


On Mar  3 20:05, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 3/3/2009 7:48 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 3/3/2009 12:27 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>>> $ svn mv CustomerInventoryAction.java CustomerinventoryAction.java
>>> svn: Path 'CustomerinventoryAction.java' is not a directory
>>>[...]
>>> But mv is okay.
>>>
>>> $ touch XyzzY.txt
>>> $ mv XyzzY.txt Xyzzy.txt
>>
>> coreutils has some magic to make this work that is lacking in 
>> subversion or libapr1 or libaprutils1. Does this work with Cygwin 1.7?
>
> Doesn't work with Cygwin 1.7, either.
>
> The work-around is to do a commit between moves:
> % svn mv file File.tmp
> % svn commit -m ''
> % svn mv File.tmp file
> % svn commit -m ''

Cygwin 1.7 itself has no problems to rename a file just case-wise,
neither under casesensitive mount points nor under caseinsensitive
mount points.  This looks like a problem in svn.


Corinna

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