Usernames and case-sensitivity

[Toby Johnson]

Ori Avtalion wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed users in VSS are case-insensitive and stored as upper-case (I
> tried renaming them to lower-case without success). Is this true?
>   

They are not stored as all-uppercase in VSS, although if you initially 
named them that way, VSS may not consider it a rename if you change only 
the case. Perhaps it would work if you changed the name to something 
else, then back to the desired case.

> They are also stored as uppercase in the subversion dumpfile.
> I'd like to import them to subversion as lower-case. Is it possible?
>   

If you didn't want to change them in VSS you could force them all to 
lowercase by modifying line 94 of Vss2Svn/Dumpfile.pm:

Index: Dumpfile.pm
===================================================================
--- Dumpfile.pm    (revision 272)
+++ Dumpfile.pm    (working copy)
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 
     if ($revision > 0) {
         push @$props, ['svn:log', $comment];
-        push @$props, ['svn:author', $author];
+        push @$props, ['svn:author', lc($author)];
     }
 
     push @$props, ['svn:date', $self->svn_timestamp($timestamp)];