Re: [Tools-discuss] uppercase/lowercase for 7 files on rsync.tools.ietf.org

On Apr 5, 2013, at 2:38 AM, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> wrote:

> 
> On 2013-03-28 11:31 Scott O Bradner said:
>> seems that it would be a good idea for the ID tool to force lower case
>> in file names to fix this sort of thing
> 
> Yes.  It's been enforced for a long time now, but old sins are never
> forgotten, in this case.

I added a few more --exclude lines to skip over those cAsEs, so my problem is solved.

-d

> Best regards,
> 
> 	Henrik
> 
> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:28 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 28, 2013, at 03:46, Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> uppercase/lowercase change
>>> 
>>> Your local file system is case insensitive.  
>>> But there are pairs of files in the Internet-drafts directory that differ only in case.
>>> Both files map to the same file on your system.
>>> So each time rsync runs, it finds a file that differs from the local file and overwrites it.  
>>> Next time, it notices that the other file does not match your local file and overwrites it with that.
>>> I laughed out loud when I first noticed this...
>>> 
>>> Grüße, Carsten
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