Re: Anyone know what this error means?

On 9 February 2010 14:24, laredotornado <laredotornado_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> This problem had nothing to do with virus scanners.  The problem was that the
> repository had two files with the same name but different case (bgIframe.js
> and bgiframe.js) and apparently Windows doesn't deal with that.  Removing
> one of the files from the repo solved this problem.
>
> Perhaps a more informative error message could be in order here?
>
> Thanks, - Dave
>
>
> laredotornado wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using McAfee on Windows XP but I can't figure out how to tell it to
>> ignore Javascript files, per your suggestion.  Do you know how?  Or is
>> there anything I can adjust in the Tortoise SVN client?
>>
>> Thanks for the help, - Dave
>>
>>
>> Stefan Küng wrote:
>>>
>>> On 29.01.2010 05:27, laredotornado wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just downloaded Tortoise SVN for my WinXP machine.  Even after
>>>> restarting,
>>>> attempting to check out from a remote repository results in this same
>>>> error
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> In directory 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software
>>>> Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\easyorder\scripts\lib'
>>>> Can't open file 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software
>>>> Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\easyorder\scripts\lib\.svn\tmp\text-base\bgiframe.js.svn-base':
>>>> The system cannot find the file specified.
>>>>
>>>> I have repeatedly gotten this message.  Does anyone know what this means
>>>> and
>>>> what I might be able to do to resolve it?
>>>
>>> Just tell your virus scanner to leave the javascript files alone. I bet
>>> that it's that 'security app' that deletes this file.
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
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Yep. Windows is stores the filenames cased, but is case insensitive.

So, you can have

"BIG.txt"

OR

"big.TXT"

but not both.

And whichever file you have, searching for "BiG.TxT" will find it!

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