Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:39:29 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd svn repo busted or bad usage? Message-ID: <488C5E71.9050109@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080727105323.GE75357@cicely7.cicely.de> References: <7d6fde3d0807261517g9714b72hbcf777f49ff91e3b@mail.gmail.com> <g6gf7s$6gm$1@ger.gmane.org> <7d6fde3d0807261747u579be045jfde9040b8783dc5b@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0807262224h3d4329bfk4e8627bf57dc7204@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef730807270056o3b53524ara6efc02f4922528@mail.gmail.com> <20080727105323.GE75357@cicely7.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:56:58AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> 2008/7/27 Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>: >> >>> Either it's the version of svn or the Cygwin / Vista environment I >>> have setup, but I just spent the time to reconfigure my FreeBSD >>> RELENG_7 VMware fusion VM and things appear to be working swimmingly >>> now. >>> >>> Maybe write a note up somewhere about this caveat? >> I think it's documented somewhere (or at least "well known") that you >> need svn version 1.5 for FreeBSD's repo; this only leaves cygwin. It >> would be nice if you could confirm it's cygwin's fault :) > > The problem is that Windows can't write files containing ':' signs, > which are part of usr/bin/window directory. > I seem to recall that cygwin had a way round this if you used a special "managed" mount which allows windows special charecters. Its been a few years since I last paid much attention to cygwin though. Vince
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