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Re: ".svn" directory name no good (in fact, it is worse than I thought)

From: D.J. Heap <djheap_at_dhiprovo.com>
Date: 2003-09-25 01:04:16 CEST

Ronald Cannes wrote:

>> Can you be more specific on what is going wrong? Like a repro recipe
>> with a small sample app of some kind -- ie, create a new project, put
>> it under Subversions control (how did you do it?), VSNet now croaks or
>> whatever...
>
>
> If found a couple of reports in the user mailing list as well... but
> here is what I do:
>
> 1) Create ASP.NET project in VS.NET 2003
> 2) Put it under Subversion control
> 3) Try to start VS.NET again and open the project
> 4) Boom.
>
> What happends is that VS.NET attempts to synchronize with "c:\Documents
> and Settings\<you>\VSWebCache", and that always fails if you have a
> directory name that starts with a period.
>
> Try it, but do not attempt to create the directory name in the file
> explorer. It's impossible :-)

All this is working against a local machine or a remote machine? File
share access method or Frontpage? And by 'Boom' you mean you get a
"refresh failed" message or something, right? Any other bad effect?

DJ

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