Recommended windows compatible hg-safe filesystem?

Mirza Hadzic mirza at seznam.cz
Fri Dec 1 16:37:20 UTC 2006


In Unicode standard there is table that defines for each lower case 
Unicode char its upper case counterpart. This could be used to prevent 
adding "/dir/foo.txt" and "/dir/Foo.txt" at the same time but OTOH on 
Unix it is perfectly legal (and often used) to have "foo.txt" and 
"Foo.txt" in same directory. Only solution would be to create special 
repository flag "Dumb-FS mode" and for each filename in repository to 
add its Unicode lower-case pair which would be used for 
filename-equality comparison.

Mirza

Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
>> I recently acquired an external USB drive to carry some enormous 
>> repositories
>> between my home and office.  I need the drive to be both windows and 
>> linux
>> compatible, and to hopefully not cause case-sensitivity style 
>> corruption in
>> my repositories.
>>
>> What fs is recommended for this purpose?
>>
> 
> I don't think there is a sane case sensitive file system on windows.
> The best you can do is to wait for the next release which will have
> support for arbitrary encodings and case insensitive fs.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Benoit
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