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Re: The Directory Name Is Invalid

From: Thomas Lehmann <t.lehmann_at_rtsgroup.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:51:40 -0700 (PDT)

> Windows has quite a few reserved names for files/directories. Is that
> happening here? The list is:
>
> "Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file:
>
> CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8,
> COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
>
> Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for
> example, NUL.txt is not recommended."
>

No! None of those problems - for sure!
I have a file X:\users\tle\temp\Html\Freeware.xml
X: is the mount with NFS and "Html" is the checkout!
Looking at the Html/.svn/entries file Freeware is marked as "file".

It is simply that svn diff (as one example) handles "Freeware.xml"
like a folder! By the way: I can copy the Html locally on my disk
and everything is working fine!

Also to note: we do checkouts by http:// ....

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