[Axiom-developer] Re: Sourceforge-Google

[Alfredo Portes]

> > Now, a checkout of Google trunk I get this other error:
> >
> > Error: In directory 'C:\Documents and
> > Settings\alfredo\Desktop\axiom\axiom\src\hyper\pages'
> > Error: Can't copy 'C:\Documents and
> > 
> Settings\alfredo\Desktop\axiom\axiom\src\hyper\pages\.svn\tmp\text-base\poly.pht.svn-base'
> > to 'C:\Documents and
> > 
> Settings\alfredo\Desktop\axiom\axiom\src\hyper\pages\.svn\tmp\poly.pht.tmp.tmp':
> > The system cannot find the file
> > Error: specified.
>
>
> This is a classic windows error:  you're trying to check out a
> directory which contains two files that differ only in case.
> (POLY.pht and poly.pht).  This works fine on Unix systems, but not on
> win32 filesystems which are case-insensitive.  The two files simply
> cannot coexist in the same directory on windows... windows considers
> them to be the same file.

Thank you Ben.

> You need to clean up the files in that repository directory, so that
> the directory can happily exist on win32.    Either have a unix person
> delete redundant files (are POLY.pht and poly.pht identical?), or
> rename them.

Tim, can this be done without breaking something on Axiom? The two
files appear to be different.