Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Cygwin/Windows

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "Seth Warn" <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:27:23 -0500
> Thank you Mr. Kempe for your suggestion regarding the slashes.  Also
> interesting is that, after the first forward slash, it becomes
> case-sensitive.
> 
> To recap, if you're passing arguments to rdiff-backup via a windows
> command line:
> 
> - All slashes after the first should be forward slashes.
> - It's not case-sensitive before the first forward slash, and is
> case-sensitive afterwards.
> 
> So if you're referring to, for example, C:\DFS\Root
> 
> - C:\DFS/Root is correct
> - c:\dfs/Root is correct
> - C:\DFS\Root is not correct
> - c:\dfs/root is not correct

Ouch.  rdiff-backup checks to see if the destination directory is
case-sensitive (because there are some obvious problems which can
arise moving from case-sensitive to case-insensitive) but doesn't
check the case sensitivity of the source side.

But it seems this is necessary to do all this stuff Right on Windows
or Mac OS.  Then all the file selectionstuff would have to be
modified.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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