On Oct 21, 2008, at 23:00, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 10/18/2008 1:54 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You might want to look into managed mounts for Cygwin 1.5.x. See
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.case-sensitive>.
> Also, the next Cygwin release (1.7) should not have this problem.
> (No, there is no expected release date.)
>
> Problems with the Cygwin version of svn should be sent to cygwin AT
> cygwin.com. I'm the maintainer of the Cygwin subversion port and I
> monitor the Cygwin list more closely than users@.
Are you saying that files named "aux.*" are permitted on Windows
under certain circumstances? What are they? I thought filenames
matching driver names were never allowed on Windows.
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