On 17-Oct-08, at 7:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> 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
Incredible. Good to know!
--Toby
>
>> 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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