Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:03:24 -0700 From: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Subversion dies on pkill checkout Message-ID: <49B63AEC.2070305@prgmr.com> In-Reply-To: <20090310085736.GB19161@hoeg.nl> References: <49B6248F.9040708@prgmr.com> <20090310085736.GB19161@hoeg.nl>
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> * Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> wrote:
>> A tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/pkill-t.t
>> svn: In directory 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill'
>> svn: Can't move source to dest
>> svn: Can't move
>> 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/tmp/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base'
>> to 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base':
>> No such file or directory
Ed Schouten wrote:
> I guess this is yet another issue we're having with checking out our
> source tree on case insensitive file systems.
That was it! I should have guessed - it's bitten me before. [*]
The workaround - again this is on Mac OS X - is to use Disk Utility to
create a big enough disk image file, then after it has been initialized,
reformat it with a case-sensitive filesystem.
One has the choice of the Unix Filesystem or case-sensitive HFS+. HFS+
is case-insensitive by default; I think the case-sensitive option is
only available in recent OS X versions.
I was able to do a full Subversion checkout onto the case-sensitive
disk-image filesystem without any further trouble.
> I squashed some of these
> bugs some time ago, but I never got around fixing all of them. :-(
Given that Mac OS X draws heavily on FreeBSD, and OS X' filesystem is
case-insensitive by default, would it be helpful if I tracked them all
down and submitted patches that would fix them all?
It shouldn't be hard to write a script that detects files and
directories whose names differ only in case.
[*] libwww-perl installs a program called /usr/bin/HEAD that clobbers
/usr/bin/head on Mac OS X. Hilarity will ensue months or even years
later when some arcane build script tries to use head but gets HEAD's
behavior instead.
Mike
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