name collisions (not symlinks) on windows

Steve Borho steve at borho.org
Tue Jan 26 06:46:28 CST 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Robert Bauck Hamar
<r.b.hamar at usit.uio.no> wrote:
> *Frank Kingswood:
>>
>> Frank Kingswood wrote:
>>>
>>> Hallo!
>>> What is the expected behaviour of symlinks when updating on Windows?
>>> I seem to be getting Access denied errors on them.
>>
>> Aww, crap. Someone did
>>  mkdir setup
>>  vi setup/foo
>>  ln -s setup SETUP
>>
>> What happens on name collisions?
>
> http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/file-names-and-pattern-matching.html - see
> the last section about this.

TortoiseHg bundles the hgfold (case folding) extension to help resolve
problems like this.

http://bitbucket.org/bradobro/hgfold/

--
Steve Borho


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