svn commit: r187332 - head/tools/regression/usr.bin/jot

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 19 22:48:13 PST 2009


David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:55:04PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
>>So I have to reformat my Mac OS X file systems in order to check out 
>>FreeBSD source trees on them because the jot(1) regression test relies on 
>>having two files in the same directory that differ only in case? :-)  No 
> 
> Does it really prevent one from checking out the sources - the file name
> collision should just cause a file to be overwritten.

Last time I tried this, it actually caused the checkout
to stop when it hit the case conflict.  (Though the error
message was far from clear.)

You can work around this with partial checkouts, but
it requires some care.

Tim


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