[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 and cvs 1.11.6 on top of Windows NT 5.1.2600 > SP1. When I try to "cvs co" a file with a colon in its name, cvs gets > horribly confused by NTFS streams and commits suicide. The exact error > message is as follows: (note: I was checking out the "src" module on > the "HEAD" branch in the FreeBSD Project's CVS repository when this cropped > up)
Filenames under Windows (both FAT and NTFS) cannot contain colons, so I'm not really sure what you're expecting Cygwin to do here. It's a fundamental Windows limitation. That said, you should try a managed mount for your cvs checkout directory. It's still an experimental feature but trying to use a filename with a colon on a normal mount is guaranteed to fail so I don't see that you have much to lose. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
