302625 - mozilla/webtools/tinderbox2/src/test/vcsim/cvs conflicts with CVS control directory on win32

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243864

(Webtools Graveyard :: Tinderbox2, defect)

Description

[Daniel Atallah]

As you may well be aware, Windows filenames are case insensitive - that is to
say that while they may be created with upper and lower case characters, you may
not have two files in a directory with names that differ only in case.

As you probably also aware, every directory in a CVS working copy contains a
"CVS" subdirectory containing the various versioning control files.

The above two issues make it impossible to check out the tinderbox2 sources
because of this "mozilla/webtools/tinderbox2/src/test/vcsim/cvs" directory which
is under version control.

Because cvs doesn't support versioned renaming, this may be a challenge to fix.  

I've dealt with renaming issues in cvs in the past by (in the actual repository
on the server) renaming the directory - this, however, has the ugly problem of
breaking branched and tagged dependencies on the current location.

The other way to deal with this would be to do the whole manual copy / cvs
remove / cvs add to a new location and then people will have to make sure to use
the -P flag during cvs updates.

Comment 1

[Daniel Atallah]

Sorry, I missed the existing bug report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243864 ***