The default value of FixCaseRenames

[Samuel]

Hi there,

I was just troublshooting a strange problem that happened to us and in the light of that I want to give feedback about the default value of the advanced setting FixCaseRenames. 

Just as the description of that setting says, some app we have changed the case of some files. And then without the person realising that, the files were committed without that change (it was a fairly big commit for some reason). This caused problems on Linux because files were referenced inside other files, but the files now had the wrong case.

So, here we have two apps - the one mentioned plus TortoiseSVN - changing the case without noticing us. We did not want either of them to do it, but it was the behavior of TortoiseSVN that caused us problem.

Do you realise that TortoiseSVN is one of those apps that change case of files that "...aren't really necessary nor wanted"? ;-)

From the reference:

FixCaseRenames

Some apps change the case of filenames without notice but those changes aren't really necessary nor wanted.

Aside from this negative feedback, I'd like to thank you for a truly great product.

Cheers

Samuel

[Stefan]

On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 1:52:07 PM UTC+2 Samuel wrote:

Hi there,

I was just troublshooting a strange problem that happened to us and in the light of that I want to give feedback about the default value of the advanced setting FixCaseRenames. 

Just as the description of that setting says, some app we have changed the case of some files. And then without the person realising that, the files were committed without that change (it was a fairly big commit for some reason). This caused problems on Linux because files were referenced inside other files, but the files now had the wrong case.

if that person would have used the svn rename command to change the case of the filenames, it would have worked as expected.

However: if TSVN would not have adjusted/fixed those case-renames automatically, that user would then have committed those renamed files as new ones, resulting in two files with the same name but different in case in the repository.

And then on the next checkout/update on windows you would have gotten errors because that's not possible on windows.

So: that setting saved your ass. Even if you won't admit it.

Sure, you had problems because of that, but you would have greater problems without it.