Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:02:31 +0100 From: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>, Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187332 - head/tools/regression/usr.bin/jot Message-ID: <4975AF47.7070506@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20090120012525.GC29741@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200901161547.n0GFlZ4C012008@svn.freebsd.org> <20090117142021.92d5a40b.stas@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901171359250.41192@fledge.watson.org> <20090119165030.GA18409@dragon.NUXI.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901191653280.36163@fledge.watson.org> <20090120012525.GC29741@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien schrieb: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:55:04PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, David O'Brien wrote: >>> For changes like this to be reasoned because of building FreeBSD on >>> Windows there should consensus. For MacOS X - there is a case sensitive >>> FS. >> So I have to reformat my Mac OS X file systems in order to check out >> FreeBSD source trees on them because the jot(1) regression test relies on >> having two files in the same directory that differ only in case? :-) No > > Does it really prevent one from checking out the sources - the file name > collision should just cause a file to be overwritten. This case should > only be an issue if you're trying to run the tests. Of course SVN complains when it would create a file, which already exists. SVN is a VCS after all. If it would inadvertently plain overwrite existing data it would completely miss one core aspect of a VCS: preserving information.
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