On Aug 1, 2014, at 2:05 AM, Pflästerer, Karl wrote: > > I created a file with the name http<->https.conf and committed it under > MacOS. No prolem at all. > I could checkout the file on out Linux servers. > > But most of my colleagues use Windows. As they tried to update their > working copies everything stopped. > > Because <> are not allowed under Windows in filenames svn could not create > the file. But they also couldn’t cleanup the WC. > The working copy was completely broken (für svn) and they had to checkout > everything new. > > IMHO this is a bug. At least svn under Windows should have refused to > checkout that file. > Furthermore: the cleanup command didn’t work because svn could not a file > with that name. I would have expected cleanup to revert a transaction not > to complete it.
What version of Subversion were your colleagues using on Windows? Was this TortoiseSVN or some other Subversion binary?
