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From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2011a@ryandesign.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:34:38 -0500
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To: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel@gmail.com>


On Oct 21, 2011, at 03:17, Johan Corveleyn wrote:

> But I'm not completely sure that this means it won't work on OSX +
> case-insensitive fs. Maybe, in the absence of truepath-conversion, it
> already "just works", without jumping through hoops ... I'm not a Mac
> user myself, so I can't test this. Can anyone check this?

It doesn't work:


$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.4.11
BuildVersion:	8S165
$ svn --version | head -n 2
svn, version 1.7.0 (r1176462)
   compiled Oct 20 2011, 04:25:50
$ cd /tmp
$ svnadmin create repo
$ svn co file:///tmp/repo wc
$ cd wc
$ touch foo
$ svn add foo
A         foo
$ svn ci -m "add"
Adding         foo
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1.
$ svn mv foo FOO
svn: E155007: Path '/private/tmp/wc/FOO' is not a directory
$=20


> I thought OSX + case-insensitive was not a very common setup (i.e.
> that it's mostly set up with a case-sensitive filesystem). But maybe
> I'm wrong, I really don't know.

Nope, all Macs ever made, from the Macintosh 128K 27 years ago right =
through current Macs with the latest OS X, have used case-insensitive =
filesystems by default. Several popular OS X GUI apps, especially by big =
publishers like Microsoft and Adobe, have at times had case errors in =
their apps, such that if you use a case-sensitive filesystem, these apps =
won't work right. Use of case-sensitive filesystems is not recommended =
on OS X.

There are some esoteric exceptions. For example, before Lion, if you had =
an Xsan filesystem, it was case-sensitive. (With Lion, these are =
case-insensitive by default too.)