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[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 01.10.2008 17:38, Bill Barry wrote:
> I have found it easier to have the central repo be linux because the 
> windows filesystem is case insensitive and every once in a while 
> somebody commits a file which is in a different case than a file another 
> person also commits (it has happened to me 4 times in the past 1500 
> revisions, but we are heavily using branches). When this happens the 
> easiest thing to do is to go on a case sensitive filesystem and manually 
> merge the two files. So long as you have one machine running linux, this 
> is an easy thing to do.
> 
> I plan on trying out ext3 as a filesystem on windows in order to make 
> this issue not such a problem.

The files inside the .hg dir are all lowercase, as Mercurial encodes
filename "X" as "_x" in the store.

So, Mercurial's store *is* case insensitive (provided you use the
default repository format, that is, [format] usestore = True in hgrc).

That's why you can move the .hg dir between Windows and unix/Linux.

Disclaimer:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue839
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue793

> Disclaimer: I haven't bothered trying to find other solutions to this 
> because the one I have works. I am pretty sure there are others.

There is no need to have linux/unix for the *central* repo server in order
to fix case collisions.

You can do these fixes on any system that provides a case-sensitive
working directory.

I use FreeBSD for our server (Windows XP clients here), mostly because
it's easier to setup things like ssh and Apache (compared to on windows).
But your mileage may vary...