Subversion dies on pkill checkout

[Michael David Crawford]

> * Michael David Crawford <mdc at prgmr.com> wrote:
>> A    tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/pkill-t.t
>> svn: In directory 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill'
>> svn: Can't move source to dest
>> svn: Can't move  
>> 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/tmp/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base'  
>> to 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base':  
>> No such file or directory

Ed Schouten wrote:
> I guess this is yet another issue we're having with checking out our
> source tree on case insensitive file systems. 

That was it!  I should have guessed - it's bitten me before. [*]

The workaround - again this is on Mac OS X - is to use Disk Utility to 
create a big enough disk image file, then after it has been initialized, 
reformat it with a case-sensitive filesystem.

One has the choice of the Unix Filesystem or case-sensitive HFS+.  HFS+ 
is case-insensitive by default; I think the case-sensitive option is 
only available in recent OS X versions.

I was able to do a full Subversion checkout onto the case-sensitive 
disk-image filesystem without any further trouble.

> I squashed some of these
> bugs some time ago, but I never got around fixing all of them. :-(

Given that Mac OS X draws heavily on FreeBSD, and OS X' filesystem is 
case-insensitive by default, would it be helpful if I tracked them all 
down and submitted patches that would fix them all?

It shouldn't be hard to write a script that detects files and 
directories whose names differ only in case.

[*] libwww-perl installs a program called /usr/bin/HEAD that clobbers 
/usr/bin/head on Mac OS X.  Hilarity will ensue months or even years 
later when some arcane build script tries to use head but gets HEAD's 
behavior instead.

Mike
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