abort: case-folding collision

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 22:55:02 UTC 2006


On 12/13/06, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:58:15PM -0700, Shane Holloway wrote:
> > [shane at dynamic-48] Dev/TG% hg clone tgav tmp/tgav
> > abort: case-folding collision between sandbox/opengl/glext/
> > fetchOpenGLExtensions.py and sandbox/openGL/glext/
> > fetchOpenGLExtensions.py
>
> This is saying:
>
> a) you're running on a case-insensitive filesystem (HFS+?)
> b) it's trying to check out two different files that would write to
>    the same file in the working directory
>
I think this may be a problem for a lot of people where the manifest
doesn't have consistent case.

I think I have a script based on rewrite-log to fix this if people are
interested.

Benoit



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