Windows support considered non-trivial [was Re: hgignore and extensions]

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:05 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> So
> at most erroring out when one such thing happens in Windows would be
> enough, but won't it automatically happen already? (Inconsistent
> repo.)

Erroring out would be enough, but I will bet you one shiny cent that it
won't actually happen at the moment :-)

> Or are you thinking about catering for those who might want to host
> projects on Windows, although the projects itself might be developed
> on other platforms?

No, I'm purely concerned with people shooting themselves in the foot if
they unknowingly try to use a repository that contains names that
Windows considers "the same".

	<b