Bug Report: ConstantPool vs constantPool (original) (raw)

Adam Farley8 adam.farley at uk.ibm.com
Wed Apr 25 13:16:36 UTC 2018

Hi David, John,

There is no error message. The specific problem I'm seeing is when I view the OpenJDK source in Eclipse. We test our changes locally using a GIT repository to record progress and share fixes. When I check out the "Unstaged changes" view, a fresh clone shows a set of changes whereby it thinks a bunch of the constant pool files got moved into the other folder, because it can't understand two folders on windows with the same paths but different names.

This blocks a bunch of functionality, as these "changes" can't be ignored, either via the ignore file or the ignore case git environment variable.

Best Regards

Adam Farley

On 04/25/2018 02:05 PM, David Holmes wrote: > I'm curious what error you have seen as we don't seem to see it (though perhaps we haven't looked closely enough). For me my Windows repo already merges the two into a single ConstantPool directory. > > I'm surprised Mercurial doesn't complain about it when cloning. > > Still needs fixing of course. It would be good to have an actual error message here, I think.

I would be surprised if such an issue was overlooked for a long time. I would think that this would bite everyone trying to check out the repository on Windows, wouldn't it? Adrian

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