On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:42, Robert J. Gebis <rjgebis_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I did run into a problem that I was no aware of and I want to bring this up to attention. Also I would like to know what is the best way to handle such case since it gave me little problem.
>
> I am developing multi platform system. When I try to add "aux" folder on linux I was able to commit just fine. Now wen getting update on windows I was getting strange error saying that aux folder can't be created. Googling I found below link explaining reserved words on windows.
>
> http://www.blindedbytech.com/2006/11/16/forbidden-file-and-folder-names-on-windows/
>
> Now I try to move aux to misc on Linux and committing it. That was fine but still on windows I was not able to get latest.
> It looks like it was updating all changes and (creation of aux) before applying (move aux mic).
> I try to delete misc on linux and committing it. Still windows was complaining. It does not seems like svn have true "drop" to revision.
>
> I ended up doing svnadmin dump -r 1:$GOOD_VER, created new repo and loading it back. This is a long process.
>
> Are there any other/better alternatives. I was pressed on time so perhaps I did overlooked something?
A fresh checkout (instead of trying to recover the half-updated one
from your initial attempt, when the file was named aux) should work
fine. If you check out HEAD, the client should never see the file
named "aux."
Received on 2011-10-25 16:49:23 CEST