Hi Ryan, it's not a file I put into SVN that causes the problem - it seems that SVN attached a kind of time stamp for one of its book keeping files in the .svn folder.
So I cannot use your solution. Best regards Mark. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:46:52 -0500 > Von: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> > An: Markus Fried <markus_fr...@gmx.net> > CC: users@subversion.apache.org > Betreff: Re: SVN and NTFS - illegal character \':\' in filename > On Mar 23, 2010, at 05:14, Markus Fried wrote: > > > I'm using SVN (client side) on a Win7 64bit box with NTFS. I've got an > issue when SVN tried to create a (SVN-system-file) named "locations-fit > (10.08.09 09:52).js.svn-base". > > > > On NTFS a ':' marks an "alternate data stream", so a "svn update" > produces an file system error. > > > > Is there a way to tell SVN not to use such file names? > > You can write a pre-commit hook preventing the commit of files whose names > contain forbidden characters. There's a whole list of characters and > filenames that Windows doesn't like that it would be useful to prevent the > commit of. I'm not sure if anybody has written such a script yet. > > After you put such a hook script in place, you may also still need to look > at all the files already in your repository and see if any of them violate > the naming restrictions, and rename them if they do. > -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser