[PD-dev] svn troubles

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 17, 2008, at 5:00 AM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:

> Quoting Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca>:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I tried running 'svn cleanup' from my externals directory but I  
>> get the
>> same error.
>> This is with cygwin svn 1.4.5 on WinXp.
>
> weird.
> what comes to my mind is:
> - are you sure you have enough space on your disk? (svn needs more
> space than cvs, as it caches the original copy of a file)
> - i have encountered problems on w32 with "forbidden" filenames, such
> as "AUX" and "COM", but this doesn't seem to be the case here...
> - svn is less tolerant than cvs when it comes to collisions: e.g. if
> you have a file "Hello.c" and a file "hello.c" in the same directory
> and your local filesystem is case-insensitive, the checkout will fail.
> nevertheless, i haven't find a case-problem in the
> gridflow/doc/flow_classess folder.
>

I think that's caused by files in SVN that have names with illegal  
characters for NTFS in them.  For example "*" is not allowed in NTFS,  
but it is on Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.

.hc


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