Magnus Therning wrote: >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:24AM +0200, listrcv wrote: > > >>Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> >> >>>top/sub1/sub2 >>>top/Sub1/sub2 >>>... >>>Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, >>>such as FAT) to merge these directories? >>> >>> >>How did you manage to split up the directories? >> >> > >It's a p4[1] depot, running on a Windows machine, with the vast majority of >clients being Windows machines as well. The server and the other users >don't have this problem since they all use a case insensitive filesystem. >Unfortunately for me, they also use a case preserving filesystem, which >results in me having this problem. > > > >>How do you define 'merge'? >> >> > >"The end result is a dir hierarchy similar to what I'd get on Windows." > >Server filename Win client filename Lnx client filename >--------------- ------------------- ------------------- >top/foo.txt top/foo.txt top/foo.txt >Top/bar.txt top/bar.txt Top/bar.txt > >On Windows I end up with only one directory, 'top', on Linux with two >'top' and 'Top'. I can't change the p4 client and it doesn't have any >configuration option to change its behaviour in this respect. What I'd >like is a tool that will merge 'top' and 'Top' into one directory. > >(I am aware this probably will screw up p4's view on my local work >space, but I really couldn't care less in this particular case.) > > > >>What would you do with files like >> >> top/sub1/sub2/foo.txt >> top/Sub1/sub2/foo.txt >> top/Sub1/Sub2/Foo.txt >> >>? >> >> > >This problem simply doesn't exist due to the nature of the filesystem on >the server :-) > > > >>Check out the --backup option of cp; find, xargs and eventually sed may >>also be helpful. >> >> > >Could you offer some more information on how this could be helpful? >AFAICS it's about as helpful as saying "Check out Python, it may be >helpful" (you can replace Python with your favourite scripting language >of course :-). > >/M > >1. http://perforce.com/ > > > I have not tested this, but a google resulted in:
http://www.maazl.de/project/misc/dsync.html Here's an excerpt form the website: -cs Enable case sensitive filenames. By default, the all operations are case-insensitive but case-preserving. - /Perl version only! I suspect that it is mainly tested on windows machines, so ymmv. / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
