Can SVN handle case sensitivity issues?

Question

Is there a way to force SVN to be case insensitive? We have an issue where a user commits from a linux environment with files say \"file.ext\" and \"File.ext\". Works just

Answer 1

I think the technical problem really is on the Mac & Windows side, namely that their file systems aren't case-sensitive. At least on the mac, you can re-format the file system as HFS+ with case-sensitivity turned on. I'm not a Windows user but there may be a similar option in Windows' native file system (is it still NTFS?).

If you don't control the developer's environments enough to force them to format with a case-sensitive file system, then I think your only options are a pre-commit hook that checks for duplicate (case-insensitive comparison, obviously) file names in the same directory or to modify your project to not use files with the same name and different case in the same directory.