Qt-Copy checkout problem on windows

[Peter Kümmel]

Peter Kümmel wrote:
> 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.

sorry, I mean phonon; but I'm more familiar with photons ;)

> 
>>
>> 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.
>>
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