[cvsnt] Re: Request for testing: Case sensitive filesystem driver

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Aug 20 20:34:00 BST 2004


Tony Hoyle wrote:

> Actually, there are almost no problems and everything works as it 
> should.  Things like CVS need special handling becuase they manage 
> internal lists of files, but most apps just open/close things and have 
> no issues.  cmd.exe and Windows Explorer handle it just fine.  Even 
> Visual Studio works if you make a case sensitive sandbox and start 
> editing with it.

I would also add that the goal is to provide case sensitive CVS services 
for Unix clients, not to provide a general purpose case insensitive 
environment (although it's not far from being that, I'm probably not 
going to bother with the extra work to make it become so).

Tony



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