Hi, I'm trying to check out a repository where someone has has committed files with illegal characters (according to Windows).
[[[ D:\Dev>svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/subversion subversion_private A subversion_private\security [... lots of files ...] A subversion_private\pr\wandisco-web-site-snapshots\subversion.wandisco.com_subversion-book-20101228-1755pm_files\moopopup01.css svn: E155009: Failed to run the WC DB work queue associated with 'D:\Dev\subversion_private\pr\wandisco-web-site-snapshots\subversion.wandisco.com_subversion-book-20101228-1755pm_files', work item 328 (file-install pr/wandisco-web-site-snapshots/wandisco.com_php_pr.php?rss=0&prdate=2010-12-20.html 1 0 1 1) svn: E720123: Can't move 'D:\Dev\subversion_private\.svn\tmp\svn-53E99F51' to 'D:\Dev\subversion_private\pr\wandisco-web-site-snapshots\wandisco.com_php_pr.php?rss=0&prdate=2010-12-20.html': Felaktig syntax för filnamn, katalognamn eller volymetikett. ]]] I believe the swedish error message translates to "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect". It seems to have been discussed in https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2014-08/0012.shtml I also found https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4098 seems to be the issue. I'll go to dev@. Apart from the obvious suggestions "don't do that" there was a suggestion to add a filter of illegal characters and to mark files containing these as not-present instead of corrupting the whole WC. Does anyone have a pointer where to start looking? Kind regards Daniel Sahlberg
