Re: [Monotone-devel] bug report: windows monotone can't check out files

[Ilkka]

(Sorry for probably breaking the thread, but I wasn't subscribed
earlier. Anyway:

Nathaniel wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:46:17PM +0100, Thomas Keller wrote:
> > Jack Lloyd schrieb:
> > >Are you sure it is the parenthesis that is the problem? I had thought
> > >that the : character was not allowed in a Windows filename, since it

Ah, of course it's the colon. I've been away from windows so long that
I forgot what constitutes a valid filename already.

> > c) at least bail out with some nicer error message (and not with "almost
> > certainly a bug in monotone"), like "The file xyz couldn't be checked
> > out on your system because it contains characters in its name which are
> > invalid on this platform. Consider renaming the file first." or
> > something like that.

After a bit of thought I would pick c).

Anyway, it's kind of a drag that one can't even rename or remove the
offending file in Windows, it seems. I ended up installing monotone
into cygwin and performing the operation there.


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