On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 22:54:24 +0200: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:51, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >> >> wrote: >> >>> It seems to me that the fixes Johan made for case-only renames (obviously >> >>> empowered by WC-NG) could be the sort of high-profile bugfix that merit a >> >>> mention in the release notes. >> >> +1, this is really important fix for Windows users. >> > >> > +1 >> > >> > I'm on holiday right now, so only following from a distance... >> > >> > To give a quick idea of what's changed concretely: it's really only >> > about "svn mv A a", which would yield "svn: Cannot move path 'A' into >> > itself" in 1.6, and now just does the right thing. It works for both >> > files and directories. This is issue 3702 [1]. >> > >> > Additionally, issue 3865 [2] was fixed to make this more useful, >> > because otherwise all other subcommands could not "reach" the deleted >> > part of the move, because case-normalization took over (hence this was >> > needed to be able to commit the move in full). >> > >> > I don't have time to contribute for the release notes or anything, so >> > if someone else can pick this up ... that would be nice. >> > >> > -- >> > Johan >> > >> > [1] http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3702 (Unable >> > to perform case-only rename on windows) >> > [2] http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3865 ('svn' on >> > Windows cannot address scheduled-for-delete file, if another file >> > differing only in case is present on disk) >> >> I almost forgot about this (holidays tend to do that, don't they :-)). >> >> Is there still time to add something about this to the release notes? > > Yes, plenty. 1.8.0 hasn't been released yet. > >> Any objections? >> >> I could write something like: "Subversion on Windows now fully >> supports changing the case of file and directory names. No more >> special workarounds, a simple 'svn mv file.java File.java' just does >> the right thing." >> >> Maybe with a link to the relevant FAQ entry [1]. But maybe that FAQ >> entry should be removed post-1.7, or at least mention that it's only >> needed for <1.7 (except the part about the check-case-insensitive.py >> pre-commit hook to avoid case-conflicts from being committed, which >> will still be valid/useful). >> >> But where do I put this? The only section in the release notes that >> seems appropriate is "Bug fixes (client and server)", which now only >> mentions that many bugs have been fixed, and directs people to the >> CHANGES file. But if this is the only bugfix that will be called out >> explicitly, I think it would be a little bit odd. >> > > You could add it as a sibling to the #libmagic-support section? > > Anyway, just add it, if it doesn't look right we can move it later.
Phew, for some reason it took me a huge amount of time, but I finally got it committed :-). r1175256 -- Johan
