Mercurial case-folding BIG BUG

[Matt Mackall]

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On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 22:19 -0800, fpedron at email.it wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a new Mercurial & TortoiseHG user and I had a problem with case
> folding collisions.
> I started a new (important) project with Mercurial and everything
> seems to be good.
> 
> I committed a lot of revision, I tested the HG repository and HG told
> me that everything was ok, but ... When I tryed to back to an old
> revision I reached a case-folding problem.

No useful description of problem -> not likely to get any help.

> I read the help command line, the manual and finally I searched for
> something to help me about this problem.
> 
> The best discussion I found was
> "http://www.nabble.com/feature-or-bug--td14591488.html" and their
> solution is to checkout  the repository on a Linux machine, rename the
> file (or some file), commit the modified file. I can't read anymore
> the old history on the Windows machine.
> 
> WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT??????
> 
> I'm only a stupid Windows user and Linux users hate Windows and stupid
> Windows users. I know it.
> 
> I've not a Linux machine. I have to user Windows because a lot of
> program work ONLY under such SO and I can't choose a better solution.
> 
> I don't understand how can Mercurial development community accept to
> confuse Windows users: until HG 0.93 everything seems ok for them, but
> now they can't use it anymore because it's very DANGEROUS.
> 
> Please, consider to remove the case-folding BIG BUG or remove Windows
> from the supported SO.

If you had spent the space above on describing your problem rather than
ranting, someone might have been able to help you.

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