[vtk-developers] case sensitivity and CVS

Francois Bertel francois.bertel at kitware.com
Thu Jan 8 15:30:45 EST 2009


I'm on Linux and I see README not readme for vtkFreeType (in an
working directory a couple of weeks old).

Isn't the problem from the fact that you committed from a Mac where
the filesystem is case insensitive?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> On 1/8/09 2:39 PM, David Cole said:
>
>>They are identical files. Please do the following as quickly as possible:
>>rm both README and readme from your local working copy
>>cvs remove README
>>cvs up
>>
>>The upper case version is the one that's new today... Please remove it now.
>
> Done.
>
> So in VTK CVS the file is 'readme' and in freetype CVS it is 'README'.
> This is bound to bite me again.  Would it be problematic to:
>  - remove 'readme'
>  - wait a few days so all dashboards delete it locally
>  - commit 'README'
>
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