On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:42, Robert J. Gebis <rjge...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did run into a problem that I was no aware of and I want to bring this up > to attention. Also I would like to know what is the best way to handle such > case since it gave me little problem. > > I am developing multi platform system. When I try to add "aux" folder on > linux I was able to commit just fine. Now wen getting update on windows I was > getting strange error saying that aux folder can't be created. Googling I > found below link explaining reserved words on windows. > > http://www.blindedbytech.com/2006/11/16/forbidden-file-and-folder-names-on-windows/ > > Now I try to move aux to misc on Linux and committing it. That was fine but > still on windows I was not able to get latest. > It looks like it was updating all changes and (creation of aux) before > applying (move aux mic). > I try to delete misc on linux and committing it. Still windows was > complaining. It does not seems like svn have true "drop" to revision. > > I ended up doing svnadmin dump -r 1:$GOOD_VER, created new repo and loading > it back. This is a long process. > > Are there any other/better alternatives. I was pressed on time so perhaps I > did overlooked something?
A fresh checkout (instead of trying to recover the half-updated one from your initial attempt, when the file was named aux) should work fine. If you check out HEAD, the client should never see the file named "aux."
