[darcs-users] [issue1067] darcs 2.0.2 (+ 76 patches) fails where darcs 1.0.9(release) succeeds (windows, ghc repo, get)

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Fri Sep 12 12:32:35 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 13:17:25 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
> find is one of my favourite tools, even on windows!-)

:-) Right, and careless application of find (not excluding _darcs) got
me into trouble, although may not other people.

> If someone on OS A is allowed to check in a file with a name that won't 
> work on OS B, then people on OS B are in trouble, no matter what darcs
> does to pristine. Or am I missing something?

Perhaps one thing: it looks like even before darcs 1.0 (so way back in
2003), darcs add has refused to add files that would cause a
case-sensitivity problem.

Users can override this explicitly with the --case-ok switch.  The GHC
repository and libraries are imported from CVS likely using a third
party tool (Tailor?).  I'm not sure how Tailor deals with this
situation.  Does it just use --case-ok?  Comments, Lele?

Unfortunately, it does not yet detect Windows reserved device names
(like com1), but this is planned for our next release.

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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