Re: [rdiff-backup-users] uppercase-translation

[Jim Balhoff]

On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Wout Mertens wrote:

> The uppercase-translation may be necessary in case you are syncing  
> from a system with a case-sensitive filesystem onto a case- 
> insensitive filesystem, but this is not so in my case. How can this  
> be turned off?

It is still a problem if both ends are case-insensitive.  This  
sequence of operations will crash rdiff-backup on Mac OS X:

mkdir BackupTesting
cd BackupTesting

mkdir -p BackMeUp/folder
mkdir Backups
rdiff-backup BackMeUp Backups/BackMeUp
mv BackMeUp/folder BackMeUp/Folder
rdiff-backup BackMeUp Backups/BackMeUp


> Moreover, two files with the same name but different cases don't  
> exist that much. So why not make the uppercase-translation only  
> kick in when you're adding a new file that would overwrite an  
> existing one in the repository?

They often exist at different times, just by changing your mind about  
whether you wanted to capitalize something.  Your idea might  
alleviate the above problem.

Jim