On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 06:05, Rob Wilmshurst <rjwilmsi_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> This is my write up of a feature request for discussion: Provide better
> error handling when repo file contains invalid characters for checkout OS
>
> After setting up a local SVN server on my Linux desktop PC and checking out
> via SSH to my Windows 7 desktop I came across errors on checkout that turned
> out to be over files that contained colons in their names.
>
> The error message was "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax
> is incorrect". Strictly a correct message but not very informative. It took
> me quite a long time to work out what this meant. I am not the only person
> to get stung by this error –
> http://www.red-bean.com/pipermail/svnbook-dev/2006-October/002525.html.
>
> I would like to make a feature request for two changes:
>
> 1) Update the documentation to include a section on what happens with
> invalid characters / special characters (could not find any reference to
> it). As far as I can see the TortoiseSVN help files don't even state the
> level of support for accented characters etc. which is a non-obvious thing
> for me. Something like "TortoiseSVN supports file names containing any
> characters that your version of Windows supports...Windows specifically
> disallows characters \/:*?"<>| in file names..." would be great, if my
> assumptions are correct.
>
> 2) If at all possible in TortoiseSVN make the error message more helpful to
> the user in this circumstance. "Error... file name of 'Hello:world.txt'
> contains invalid character ':'" or similar would be great. Windows 7 tells
> me it doesn't allow any of \/:*?"<>| in file names, so maybe TortoiseSVN
> could specifically check for those ones?
Good ideas, but you need to lobby for them on the Subversion mailing
list. Everything you describe above is done by the Subversion
libraries, not Tortoise.
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Received on 2010-04-09 12:37:38 CEST