On 10/9/07, Atwood, Robert C <r.atwood@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I wrote:
>
> > >Is there a way within
> > > svn to globally rename .C to .cxx in the repository for all
> ...
>
> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> > No. I'm sorry. I'd advise checking out on *nix, rename and commit.
> > After that, you should be able to check out to Windows just fine.
>
>
> Ok . Thanks for confirming what I suspected.
>
> I have done the rename as you suggest with success , for this particular
> branch, I guess I'll 'burn' the other branches when I come to them!
>
> Learn from my mistake #2:
> Don't try to name a subdirectory 'aux' either, if you ever want to
> checkout on Microsoft Windows ! I have never seen any documetnation of
> this, but I observed that Microsoft Windows does not allow creation of a
> directory called 'aux', failing in cryptic manner.
>
> Cygwin$ mkdir aux
> mkdir: cannot create directory `aux': Not a directory
Heh. Yea. The same applies to CON, COMxx, LPTxx and some other device names...
HTH,
Erik.
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