[PD-dev] svn troubles

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 17, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> 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 about 40gigs free.
>
>> - 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.
>>
> Just tried it again using TortoiseSVN and got the same error:
> Added:
> E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\messageprepend- 
> icon.png
> Added:
> E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\listappend-icon.png
> Added:
> E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\listelement-help.pd
> Error: Can't check path
> 'E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\inv*-icon.png':  
> The
> filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
> Windows doesn't like files with * in the name. In fact if I try to  
> make
> such a filename in Explorer I get a tooltip saying:
> A file name cannot contain any of the following characters: \/:*?"<>|
>
> The file inv*-icon.png definitely exists in the repository:
> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/ 
> externals/gridflow/doc/flow_classes/inv*-icon.png?view=log
>
> I guess I'll have to check out the directories one at a time.
> I managed to check out everything using Ubuntu without incident.

This has been happening for a while, but perhaps you just didn't  
notice.  You can see the files in question by looking at the top of  
the nightly build log for winxp:

http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2007-09-10/logs/ 
2007-09-10_05.54.04_mingw32_nt-5.1_windowsxp-i386_pd-extended_run- 
automated-builder.txt

There are currently four files that NTFS rejects:

/externals/gridflow/doc/flow_classes/.inv*-icon.png
/externals/zexy/abs/.<~-help.pd
/externals/zexy/abs/.>~-help.pd
/externals/zexy/abs/.||~-help.pd

.hc


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