Subversion and Changing the case of files and directories

FYI:

Rule of thumb in cross-platform development, do not change the case of files or directories, and if you do please read and understand the following from the subversion FAQ:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#case-change

This is a tricky situation and causes loss of file history, and can potentially complicate the merge process horribly, as it is for me with the change of case of the AjaxSearch snippet directory (changed to ajaxSearch).

I’ll clean this up as best I can, but try to keep in mind for future reference, do not change the case of files or directories in subversion unless absolutely necessary, and if you do, make sure to do it according to the FAQ.

With so many contributors on so many different platforms, I think a good guideline would be: If it’s a filename or a directory/folder name, it’s all lower case. Whether it’s worth doing the all-lower-case conversion on third-party tools is a tougher question.

Bob