On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 3:58 AM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Den tors 22 dec. 2022 kl 23:40 skrev Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org>: >> >> Clearly those UTF-8 code points cannot be "converted" by svn to the >> 7-bit ASCII locale that is "C". Fine; I don't expect it to. Is there a >> way to force svn to complete the checkout anyway? That is, just check >> out the file and let the name be whatever the bytes are. I don't >> understand why any "conversion" by svn is necessary merely to operate on >> files. > > > Not at all related to this issue except it also concerns filenames: It is > possible to commit files with a filename that works on only one platform, > making a checkout/update fail on other platforms. > > Example: Commit a file with ? (questionmark) in the filename on Linux and > checkout the file on Windows.
Yes. The source code for HylaFAX had this exact problem, since it had MixedCaseFileNames.c and Mixedcasefilenames.c . They can be checked out in the same working copy on UNIX and Linux and MacOS easily, on Windows it's not so easy due to the "case-insensitive" file systems. Nico Kadel-Garcia > [[[ > D:\temp>svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/subversion/pr/XXXX > private_wc > [...] > svn: E155009: Failed to run the WC DB work queue associated with > 'D:\temp\private_wc\YYY_folder', work item 54 (file-install XY?Z.html 1 0 1 1) > svn: E720123: Can't move 'D:\temp\private_wc\.svn\tmp\svn-C3A15B21' to > 'D:\temp\private_wc\XY?Z.html': The filename, directory name, or volume label > syntax is incorrect. > ]]] > > (The above example is from the Subversion private repository, I've masked the > actual folders/filenames but it should be reproducible for anyone with access > to the repository). > > This is a case where a conversion might /be/ necessary (although I don't have > a concrete idea of what the conversion should be). Or else these files should > just be ignored on checkout. > > I'm just mentioning this in case someone looks at the code and decides make > changes to the conversions. > > Kind regards, > Daniel
