On Oct 17, 2008, at 08:37, Toby Thain wrote:
>> I am having a weird svn problem [ only on windows ]. When I run a
>> fresh svn checkout of trunk, I got an error message like:
>>
>> svn: Failed to add file 'emu/aux.js': object of the same name
>> already exists
>>
>> URL: svn+ssh://user@www.dom.com/svnroot/tfb/trunk/
>>
>> This happens when I do an svn up also on an existing workarea. The
>> problem is limited to my cygwin svn environment
>
> Do you have two files in that directory differing only in case?
Actually, it is not permitted to have a file named "aux" (with any
extension) on Windows.
According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename
> In addition, in Windows and DOS, some words might also be reserved
> and can not be used as filenames.[3] For example, DOS Device file:
>
> CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL
> COM0, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9
> LPT0, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
> Operating systems that have these restrictions cause
> incompatibilities with some other filesystems. For example, Windows
> will fail to handle, or raise error reports for, these legal UNIX
> filenames: aux.c, q"uote"s.txt, or NUL.txt.
>
>
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Received on 2008-10-18 01:26:17 CEST