Case folding collision in Mercurial (WinXP)

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:00 -0700, Dan Craft wrote:
> As for what caused this?  Operator error always seems more likely 
> than cosmic rays, especially something as humanly meaningful as 
> leaving a letter as lower case.  Now that I know there's a way I 
> could have typed something to cause it--'hg add' typed with incorrect 
> case--even though I generally use shell completion for longer 
> filenames, I'll bet that was it.  One of the four files in the 
> mis-capitalized directory *was* added in that changeset.

Hopefully, this particular problem will soon be a thing of the past.
We've recently made Mercurial much smarter about the relation between
case on the command line, in the repo, and in the working directory.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.