[darcs-users] downshifting from a case-sensitive to case-insensitive file system

Alexy Khrabrov deliverable at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 02:14:26 UTC 2007


Due to the infinite wisdom of Adobe, whose CS3 simply refuses to  
install on a Mac if its system volume is case-sensitive, I had to  
upgrade to Leopard with a case-INsensitive volume formatting.

Now, I had a single darcs repository with one pair of files differing  
only in case.  Now the directory has only one of them there after  
Migration Assistant chose one for me, and darcs shows huge changes in  
it, obviously believing it to be an edit of another one.

I have the original directory with darcs repo backed up on a case- 
sensitive volume.  There, I can darcs mv one to a different name.  But  
will the history be preserved properly?  What's the right thing to do  
to keep both files and their histories?

Cheers,
Alexy 


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