diff --git a/webtools/bonsai/CHANGES b/webtools/bonsai/CHANGES
index bd7a151ef65..c04f17a53ef 100644
--- a/webtools/bonsai/CHANGES
+++ b/webtools/bonsai/CHANGES
@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@ query the CVS tree.  For example,
 will tell you what has been changed in the last week.
 
 
+11/9/99 I have discovered that Bonsai gets all screwed up if you have multiple
+files with the same name but different capitalization in your directory.  This
+is because the tables were all defined to have case-independent strings, but
+you want them to be case-dependent.  To fix, feed the following to mysql:
+
+	alter table dirs change column dir dir varchar(128) binary not null;
+	alter table files change column file file varchar(128) binary not null;
+	alter table people change column who who varchar(32) binary not null;
+	alter table repositories change column repository repository varchar(64) binary not null;
+	alter table branches change column branch branch varchar(64) binary not null;
+	alter table checkins change column revision revision varchar(32) binary not null, change column stickytag stickytag varchar(255) binary not null;
+	alter table tags change column revision revision varchar(32) binary not null;
+
+
+
 10/12/99 Apparently, newer alphas of MySQL won't allow you to have
 "when" as a column name.  So, I have had to rename a column in the
 checkins table.  You must feed the below to mysql or you won't
diff --git a/webtools/bonsai/maketables.sh b/webtools/bonsai/maketables.sh
index bca201ea88c..fa28757bc29 100755
--- a/webtools/bonsai/maketables.sh
+++ b/webtools/bonsai/maketables.sh
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ show index from descs;
 	
 create table people (
     id mediumint not null auto_increment primary key,
-    who varchar(32) not null,
+    who varchar(32) binary not null,
 
     unique(who)
 );
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ show index from people;
 	
 create table repositories (
     id mediumint not null auto_increment primary key,
-    repository varchar(64) not null,
+    repository varchar(64) binary not null,
 
     unique(repository)
 );
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ show index from repositories;
 
 create table dirs (
     id mediumint not null auto_increment primary key,
-    dir varchar(128) not null,
+    dir varchar(128) binary not null,
 
     unique(dir)
 );
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ show index from dirs;
 
 create table files (
     id mediumint not null auto_increment primary key,
-    file varchar(128) not null,
+    file varchar(128) binary not null,
 
     unique(file)
 );
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ show index from files;
 
 create table branches (
     id mediumint not null auto_increment primary key,
-    branch varchar(64) not null,
+    branch varchar(64) binary not null,
 
     unique(branch)
 );
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ create table checkins (
 	repositoryid mediumint not null,
 	dirid mediumint not null,
 	fileid mediumint not null,
-	revision varchar(32) not null,
-	stickytag varchar(255) not null,
+	revision varchar(32) binary not null,
+	stickytag varchar(255) binary not null,
 	branchid mediumint not null,
 	addedlines int not null,
 	removedlines int not null,
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ create table tags (
 	branchid mediumint not null,
 	dirid mediumint not null,
 	fileid mediumint not null,
-	revision varchar(32) not null,
+	revision varchar(32) binary not null,
 
 	unique(repositoryid,dirid,fileid,branchid,revision),
 	index(repositoryid),