Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] extraneous file on my recent Wiki commit

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Bob,

On Dec 6, 2014, at 14:58, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> Seems like I make a mistake in my last commit to the Savannah wiki
>> (svn rev 121),
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-cvs/2014-12/msg00003.html :
>> 
>> I only changed "SavannahServices.mdwn" but somehow
>> "HomePageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql.mdwn" was also modified and
>> committed, with content that I did not write.
>> I do not know exactly how this happened, as "svn diff" showed only
>> the four lines I changed in "SavannahServices".
> 
> Check the name of that file carefully and you will find two files that
> are very closely named.  They differ only by case.
> 
>  HomePageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql.mdwn
>  HomepageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql.mdwn

That's impressive detective work! thank you!

<...>

> I think somehow you copied the lower case p file to the upper case P
> file.  Since it was modified it was a candidate for a commit and your
> commit accidentally pulled in the file.

Yes, but it wasn't me :)
This was done on a case-insensitive filesystem (HFS), and I guess something got 
messed up.
Perhaps it also explains why "svn diff" did not show any differences ? and why 
it is now showing up in your svn work dir?

That should teach me a lesson...

Thanks for the help!
 - Assaf