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Re: SVN and NTFS - illegal character ':' in filename

From: Markus Fried <markus_fried_at_gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:50:45 +0100

Thank you very much for pointing me to the solution. svn ls did indeed reveal the little rascal and I could remove it!

Thanks again!

Mark.

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:21:59 -0700
> Von: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
> An: Markus Fried <markus_fried_at_gmx.net>
> CC: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2010a_at_ryandesign.com>, users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Betreff: Re: SVN and NTFS - illegal character \':\' in filename

> On 03/23/2010 08:04 AM, Markus Fried wrote:
> > Hi Ryan,
> >
> > it's not a file I put into SVN that causes the problem - it seems that
> SVN attached a kind of time stamp for one of its book keeping files in the
> .svn folder.
>
> As others have stated, that file is something checked into svn.
>
> What svn does is save a pristine copy of the file in the .svn folder but
> appends the ".svn-base" to its name, so it's natural to think it's
> something that svn maintains for itself, but in this case the root cause
> is a poorly named file checked into svn.
>
> Regards,
> Blair

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