What the Mac?

Mac is full of surprises, just found out that Mac OS X file system is not case sensitive. It is case preserving, meaning that if you create a file calle MyFile.txt it will show it that way, but you can not put a file called MYFILE.txt in the same folder.

As usual I found out the hard way, when trying to check out an SVN repository that originated from Linux, which, as we know, is case sensitive . The error message that I have received was hardly useful. I really owe it to this post for the solution.

You live, you learn.