[PD-dev] svn troubles

[Martin Peach]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Strange that it didn't show up before in cvs. My local cvs copy doesn't 
have that file. Maybe it was quietly dropped.

Martin