On 01/27/2011 10:26 AM, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:23 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> > wrote: >> We should probably release-note this change. It might be a rare situation, >> but *if* folks have come to depend on the case-sensitivity of these checks, >> they need to prepare for the fallout of this loosening of the policy. > > Can you envision a scenario where the current behavior works? I guess > the only thing I can think of is if someone wanted a repository to > just be read-only but incorrectly had it set to read-write and it was > only not allowing the write because of case-sensitivity. > > This just seems like an obvious bug to me that anyone would have run > into and changed their rules (to get the case right) until it worked > properly.
I'm not saying it's a common situation. I'm simply saying that it's better to advise about this kind of thing up front rather than looking -- if only to the 1 person in the world for whom it matters -- as if we didn't think about the possible ramifications of the change. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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