Qt-Copy checkout problem on windows

[Peter Kümmel]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> Because qt snapshots tarballs contains only the upper case name i
>> suggest to move all files from the lower case subdirectory into the
>> upper case directory. If noone objects I would perform this change in
>> svn.
> 
> Don't. That breaks the build. Qt snapshot tarballs contain both.

git's snapshot only contains 'Photon' with the files of 'photon' too.

> 
> The setup is correct:
> 
> phonon/lowercasename.h
> Phonon/UpperCaseName

And where is qtcore, qtgui, ...? Using phonon/Photon makes no sens, at
least not within Qt.

> 
> I spent a lot of time trying to find the proper fix for this problem that 
> we created by shipping a lowercase 'p' in Qt 4.4.0. On systems where the 
> filesystem is case-insensitive, the two directories are one and the same. 
> This works for syncqt (the Perl script that creates them), as well as zips 
> and tarballs.
> 
> So this solution works just fine -- as long as SVN isn't involved. We did 
> not take SVN into account when creating the solution. (SVN wants to create 
> a subdir .svn in each subdir and that's the problem; Git doesn't do that, 
> so it works)
> 
> Can you please just not check out the 'include' dir, completely?
> 
> Or, better yet, people should start using the Git repository of the Qt 
> snapshot. We'll soon have an open repository with Git and learning it 
> would be ideal.
>