Re: Problem checking out in windows a file with an invalid syntax

In date sunday 2008-09-14 20:37:35 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Stefano Sabatini wrote on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 at 16:19 +0200:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > we have this problem checking out a file with an invalid syntax (in
> > windows), using tortoise but I think the problem doesn't depend on
> > that specific client.
> >
> > Here it is the specific error message:
> > Error: Can't check path
> > 'R:\path\to\file\*.dep': The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
> >
>
> As expected, I see the same error (on Windows) when a file's name
> contains a "*" character ...
>
> > then the update or check out operation fails.
> >
> > Note that this doesn't seem a problem in linux, since that file syntax
> > is valid in linux.
> >
> > Note also that the '*.dep' file has been already removed from the
> > repository, as it was the residual of a make distclean rule which
> > missed to remove that file.
> >
>
> ... but after I remove the bad filename from HEAD, I don't have
> a problem checking out again. (See transcript below.)
>
> I'm not sure what is different in your environment (except the version;
> I used a trunk build). Can you provide a transcript of 'svn ls -R' and
> the failing 'svn co'? Are you sure the '*.dep' file does not exist in
> HEAD?

Well it turned out that indeed there was *another* file with that name
which I didn't removed from the repository, and indeed it was
complaining about that file rather than the previous (already deleted)
one.

So your last comment was spot on, you helped me to double-check the
wrong assumption that that file didn't exist, I removed it and now the
problem should be fixed.

Thanks for your help!

Regards.

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