On Feb 17, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
>
zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
>> Quoting Martin Peach <
martin.peach@sympatico.ca>:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I tried running 'svn cleanup' from my externals directory but I
>>> get the
>>> same error.
>>> This is with cygwin svn 1.4.5 on WinXp.
>>
>> weird.
>> what comes to my mind is:
>> - are you sure you have enough space on your disk? (svn needs more
>> space than cvs, as it caches the original copy of a file)
> I have about 40gigs free.
>
>> - i have encountered problems on w32 with "forbidden" filenames, such
>> as "AUX" and "COM", but this doesn't seem to be the case here...
>> - svn is less tolerant than cvs when it comes to collisions: e.g. if
>> you have a file "Hello.c" and a file "hello.c" in the same directory
>> and your local filesystem is case-insensitive, the checkout will
>> fail.
>> nevertheless, i haven't find a case-problem in the
>> gridflow/doc/flow_classess folder.
>>
> Just tried it again using TortoiseSVN and got the same error:
> Added:
> E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\messageprepend-
> icon.png
> Added:
> E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\listappend-icon.png
> Added:
> E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\listelement-help.pd
> Error: Can't check path
> 'E:\pd_from_svn\externals\gridflow\doc\flow_classes\inv*-icon.png':
> The
> filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
> Windows doesn't like files with * in the name. In fact if I try to
> make
> such a filename in Explorer I get a tooltip saying:
> A file name cannot contain any of the following characters: \/:*?"<>|
>
> The file inv*-icon.png definitely exists in the repository:
>
http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/> externals/gridflow/doc/flow_classes/inv*-icon.png?view=log
>
> I guess I'll have to check out the directories one at a time.
> I managed to check out everything using Ubuntu without incident.