Re: [orca-list] svn errors

["Mohammed Al-shar'" <mohammed atexplorer com>]

yes willie,

you are right, I said I was using windows client, and the files system used 
is ntfs. is there a way to get the trunk from here and then reboot to linux? 
I am not yet confident using linux at all, so it would be great if you could 
think of a way.

thanks a million.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Mohammed Al-shar'" <mohammed atexplorer com>
Cc: <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] svn errors


> Hi Mohammed:
>
> The syntax of the error (e.g., it has \ instead of / characters in it) 
> suggests to me that you might be using a file system format intended for 
> Windows, which has restrictions on file and path names.  What kind of file 
> system are you using? To help with this, type the following commands;
>
> df -k .
> mount
>
> Thanks!
>
> Will
>
> Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:
> > hi.
> >  finally I decided to check out the source using one of the windows svn 
> > clients and then copy that to my ubuntu installation so that I have 
> > control over what happens. I tried 2 clients and here's what I got:
> >  svn: Can't check path 'trunk\test\2007-01-21_12:49:59': The filename, 
> > directory
> > name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
> >  note that it downloaded 136 kb, tells you it is working fine.
> >  anybody can offer suggestions?
> >  or, better yet, if somebody can check the sources out and provide me 
> > with a compressed file I could use it would be cool!
> >  I don't want to download under linux so far, because I have no way to 
> > tell what is going on.
> >  thank you
> > Mohammed al-shar'
> >
> >
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