DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3444] Deal with case-insensitive file-systems better (perhaps by adding an option)

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3444





------- Comment #5 from loic at senga.org  2006-02-01 02:46 MST -------
--ignore-case solves the critical problem of unwanted file deletions.

There still is a (less critical) problem when one want to change the case of a
file name. Even on case insensitive file systems, the file names have case
differences, only they are not meaningfull. When the same tree is used on a
file system when case are meaningfull, the maintainer of the tree is very
likely to 
change the case of a file. The typical example is when A.txt is created on a
case insensitive file system and refered to by an application as a.txt
(lowercase). When the application runs on a case sensitive file system, it
fails. If, for some reason, it is impractical to change the application to use
A.txt instead of a.txt, one want to change the case of the file.

I'm sure you can imagine loads of situations where changing the case of a file
is relevant and I'm also sure the rsync user expects this to support such a
change in some way.

That problem would not exist if case insensitive file systems changed all file
names to lowercase. But case insensitive file systems are not case ignorant and
that complicates the situation a bit.




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