Kamesh Jayachandran wrote on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 00:14:35 +0530: > > >> 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. > >> > > >Sorry for not thinking about this earlier, but: > >Why was the fix to make all checks case-INsensitive, as opposed to > >making all checks case-sensitive? > > We use svn_config_read to parse the authz which always stores the section > names in *lower* case in its internal hash table. > > See subversion/libsvn_subr/config.c:make_hash_key(). > > We need to rev svn_config_read to accept bool case_sensitive_section_parser. > Then we can change the behaviour to always case-sensitive approach as against > today's case-insensitive approach. >
Thanks for the reminder. Do you think it's a good idea? Personally I'm +0.5, since IMO we should be treating pathnames case-insensitively. Daniel > With regards > Kamesh Jayachandran
