This is subjective, but I believe that darcs mv should mention "-- 
case-ok" when the source and destination only differ in case rather  
than just error out saying the destination already exists. Folks that  
don't know about --case-ok may resort to remove and add instead which  
is not desirable.

Dave

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David K. Hess
Verscend Technologies, Inc.
dhess@verscend.com
214-684-5448

Sounds about right.  Adding the new ProbablyEasy tag, which indicates that this
might be a good job for a beginner.

Dino Morelli points out that this has already be resolved [patch 'Allow rename
to different case (RT #466, case-insensitive file systems)'].  The patch dates
back from 2006-01.

I had gotten confused and thought this was something that affected
case-sensitive file systems; something like
 darcs init
 touch a b
 darcs add a b
 darcs record
 darcs mv a B

But that complains correctly.

David, was your darcs version just rather old, or did I just confuse myself again?

Thanks, Dino

This is the issue I was reporting:

>  darcs init
>  touch a
>  darcs add a
>  darcs record
>  darcs mv a A

under Mac OS X (case-insensitive file system). The error message that  
resulted didn't suggest using "--case-ok". Newbies that don't know  
about --case-ok (like me at the time) then resort to remove and add  
which isn't ideal.

If I remember correctly, the issue existed in every version of darcs  
that had been released up to the day I submitted it and I was only  
using the builds that were pointed to by the Wiki. I looked back and  
I submitted that suggestion on 06/16/2006.

I'm slapping myself for not including the version info. I'm guessing  
I didn't because it was all versions to date.

Dave

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David K. Hess
Verscend Technologies, Inc.
dhess@verscend.com
214-684-5448

On Oct 1, 2006, at 11:50 PM, Eric Kow wrote:

>
> Eric Kow <eric.kow@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Dino Morelli points out that this has already be resolved [patch  
> 'Allow rename
> to different case (RT #466, case-insensitive file systems)'].  The  
> patch dates
> back from 2006-01.
>
> I had gotten confused and thought this was something that affected
> case-sensitive file systems; something like
>  darcs init
>  touch a b
>  darcs add a b
>  darcs record
>  darcs mv a B
>
> But that complains correctly.
>
> David, was your darcs version just rather old, or did I just  
> confuse myself again?
>
> Thanks, Dino
>
> ----------
> status: chatting -> resolved
>
> ____________________________________
> Darcs issue tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue203>
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:54:36 -0500, David K. Hess wrote:
> > darcs init
> > touch a
> > darcs add a
> > darcs record
> > darcs mv a A

This particular sequence works for me in darcs 1.0.8 on MacOS X

Furthermore:
touch b
darcs mv A B

Produces the --case-ok error message.

Could you please verify this with 1.0.8?  Many thanks,

I concur.

Thanks!

Dave

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David K. Hess
Verscend Technologies, Inc.
dhess@verscend.com
214-684-5448

On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Eric Kow wrote:

>
> Eric Kow <eric.kow@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:54:36 -0500, David K. Hess wrote:
>>> darcs init
>>> touch a
>>> darcs add a
>>> darcs record
>>> darcs mv a A
>
> This particular sequence works for me in darcs 1.0.8 on MacOS X
>
> Furthermore:
> touch b
> darcs mv A B
>
> Produces the --case-ok error message.
>
> Could you please verify this with 1.0.8?  Many thanks,
>
> ____________________________________
> Darcs issue tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue203>
> ____________________________________

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