feature or bug?

[Patrick Mézard]

Mark A. Flacy a écrit :
> IMO, the attempts by hg to mask NTFS file naming problems was a lot of  
> misguided effort that  simply pushed the problem (file collisions due to  
> case) somewhere else (file name too long).  I can see why they tried  
> (host a repo on a Windows box), but lipstick on a pig still leaves you  
> with a pig.

HFS+ is case-preserving too by default.

If you want interoperability, you have to handle these issues, otherwise you will break repositories randomly.
 
> They could try some magic with hashing the file names and using the hex  
> string of the hash instead of the file name, but that's not going to be  
> fast and the reverse mapping would require a dictionary somewhere.

For reference, what you are talking about is proposed here:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue839

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Patrick Mézard