The code comment here [1] and the wiki [2] both state that section name matching is case-insensitive.
However my reading of the document here [3] says this changed in version 1.7. These docs don't seem consistent to me. S. [1] https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/config_file.c?view=markup#l1004 [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SVN/Configuration+File+Syntax [3] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html