RE: "move away file.java"

[Matt Bishop]

Interesting, though not applicable in my case.  There are no additional
files in this directory, generated, backup or otherwise.

There's a rename-case-sensitivity in the bug list already, hopefully it
will be addressed soon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:45 AM
To: Matt Bishop; CVS-II Discussion Mailing List
Subject: Re: "move away file.java"


Move away errors - commonly occur under windows file systems because
many editors lose the case of the file.  A file which is all upper case
or all lower case appears to be lower case, but in actuality is upper
cased.  A file with mixed case will appear correctly.  I have run into
this MANY times after editing with lame editors that saved files as all
upper case.  I use FAR by (www.rarsoft.com) and it displays the actual
case of files... not sure how to do this otherwise... but you can try
just doing a 'rename file.java file.java' which will fix the case (
unless it was actually in upper case when you checked it in - have to
check CVS/Entries to see what it actually wants ) So - although windows
uses long file names and allows cases - for backwards compatibility it
assumes all upper case is lower case, and forgets to tell anyone - but
apparently the test within CVS even on windows is case sensitive.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Bishop" <address@hidden>
To: "CVS-II Discussion Mailing List" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:36 PM
Subject: "move away file.java"


> (This is a repost--I tripped a few spam filters with the last one...)
>
>
> I get this error frequently when updating in a directory with 'cvs 
> update -dP':
>
> cvs update: move away file.java; it is in the way
> C file.java
>
> I am running CVS 1.11.5 for Windows; server is 1.11.6 on Linux.
>
> If I blow away file.java, and re-update, the problem goes away for a 
> bit, then returns.
>
> If I update the file directly with 'cvs update -dP file.java' the 
> update works as expected.
>
> I've searched Cederqvist, but found nothing.  Google doesn't offer 
> much more.
>
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