From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 29 13:28:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C45F37B401; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:28:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C85A43EDC; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:28:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA30661; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:27:28 -0800 Subject: Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS From: "Paul A. Scott" To: Mike Bristow Cc: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3840B54C-03B2-11D7-B48F-0003931D190A@urgle.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> The cvs on MacOSX does not [work]. My mistake. > From: Mike Bristow > CVS works just fine - it's just that the filesystem is case insensitive > [1], so when you check out src/contrib, the distinction between > src/contrib/CVS [2] src/contrib/cvs is lost, and Bad Shit happens. Damn. I keep forgetting about the Mac OSX stupid, case-insesitive HFS+. I HATE that! It's burned me more than once. Unfortunately, moving to UFS is not an option for a whole host of reasons. Ya know, Apple stated on their Web site, "there is never any good reason to have a case-sensitive file system." Can you believe that? I wrote back to them and stated, "there is never any good reason to have a case-INsensitive filesystem." But, of course, they never replied. :) > Try using Disk Copy to setup and mount a blank (UFS) image, or having a > separate UFS partition. I did this and cvs now works perfectly. Thanks for the great tip. I REALLY appreciate it. > [1] Unless your filesystem is UFS, rather than HFS+, in which case > you'll have lots of interesting other problmes. I know. I once tried to move to UFS. Big mistake. Apple's UFS limits file sizes to 2GB, and it doesn't support meta-data. > [2] CVS keeps a shedload of metadata here Ahhh. Since the topic has moved from FreeBSD to Apple Mac OSX, it's now off-topic and I should now kill this thread. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message