[issue1203] Problems with Uppercase Directory when cloning onto FAT32 USB stick and cloning onward to ext3

Arne Babenhauserheide mercurial-bugs at selenic.com
Thu Jun 26 10:06:08 CDT 2008


New submission from Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>:

Hi, 

I tried cloning a Mercurial repository which contained a 3 letter all-uppercase 
directory onto a USB stick and cloning from that onto an ext3 file system. 

It cloned quite well, but it didn't update the workdir. 

When looking into the store I found that two uppercase directories had turned 
to lowercase directories on FAT32, and had stayed lowercase when I cloned them 
onto ext3. 

I got it working by manually renaming the two directories to be all uppercase 
again. 

Other mixed case directories stayed mixed case. 

Both directories had been 3 letter directories, so this might also have to do 
with reserved names somehow, but I don't know enough about that to be sure. 

All machines were Linux machines (Gentoo (amd64 desktop) and Fedora (OLPC-XO)). 

Steps to reproduce: 
- hg clone http://edrikor.dyndns.org:8007/ USB_STICK/game_rpg
- hg clone USB_STICK/game_rpg  EXT3_DISK/game_rpg

Can you verify the problem?

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messages: 6419
nosy: ArneBab
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Problems with Uppercase Directory when cloning onto FAT32 USB stick and cloning onward to ext3
topic: casefolding

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