> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Foad [mailto:julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 6 februari 2009 12:49
> To: Edward Ned Harvey
> Cc: dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Bug with bad characters in past versions when doing sparse
> checkout
>
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > This is the right way to submit a bug, right?
> >
> > I didn’t see any reply …
>
> Yes, this is the right way. Thanks for your patience. Sometimes it
> takes
> a bit of prodding to get somebody interested in helping.
>
> > This is a reproducible bug, which isn’t super horrible (no data loss
> > or security risks) and probably doesn’t affect an enormous number of
> > users, but I know it came up for my users the hard way…
> >
> >
> > From: Harvey, Edward
> > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:26 PM
> > To: dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Bug with bad characters in past versions when doing sparse
> > checkout
> >
> > This thread started on tortoisesvn, here:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/tortoisesvn-dev/t/ba504f8a58b303d3
> >
> > It was found to be a svn bug, not tortoise. So I recreated it on the
> > command line (with collabnet svn 1.5.5 I just downloaded a minute
> ago)
> > and wrote down exactly how to reproduce it. Please see attachments:
> >
> > prep_for_problem.txt
> >
> > and
> >
> > witness_problem.txt
>
> I've re-attached these, and also a Unix shell script that runs through
> the same scenario. But, on my SuSE system, the script does not
> reproduce
> the problem that you see on Windows.
On Windows you can't create files with <>|\/:*? characters in their names. (Most characters are just forbidden the : is actually the filestream separator when it is used at the end of a path).
This error "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" is one of the default error messages you can get when you try to use an invalid name.
U:\>echo a > "f:?a"
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
U:\>
Bert
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