[tex-live] mktexlsr ignores "rcs" on a Windows 7 machine

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Wed Aug 18 18:00:56 CEST 2010


Le 18/08/2010 17:27, C.M. Connelly a écrit :
> "ZW" == Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> 
>     ZW> RCS directory is an administrative area of an RCS working
>     ZW> copy (similarly CVS directory for CVS wirking copy). Such
>     ZW> directories should not be seen by TeX. Unfortunatelly,
>     ZW> Windows file systems are not case sensitive, so they
>     ZW> consider rcs and RCS being equal.
> 
> The default Mac OS X filesystem is also not case sensitive, so it
> would be nice if any scripts in TeX Live didn't assume
> case-sensitive filesystems.
> 
To the best of my knowledge, no script in TeX Live assumes a case-sensitive
filesystem.

The problem here is not really case sensitivity, it's rather to known if
ignoring "well-known" directories used by popular VCSes, namely

	.bzr .git .hg .svn CVS RCS _darcs

does more good than harm.

Manuel.


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