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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>
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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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