After backing up the repository I would examine it with low level tools and once I found the slash I would change it to an X or a Y using a hexeditor such as Hxd. Might not work and there might be too many slashes to narrow it down but that would probably be my first angle of attack. Obviously Daniel's solution is much safer.
On Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 9:52:39 pm UTC+10 Fiddler wrote: > Bruce, Thanks for the information. Now i have two avenues to correct in > the future if I run across this again. I thought I had tried that command > before posting this, but apparently I was doing something wrong. > > On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 4:30:37 AM UTC-4 Bruce C wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I wasn't aware of the *svnmucc* command, so that's something new to >> learn. Thanks. >> >> An alternative solution, with the same approach, is to use the *svn move* >> command. The command that worked for me was as follows: >> >> svn move -m "Rename file to filename that is valid on Windows" >> https://server.example.com/svn/repo/path/\ >> https://server.example.com/svn/repo/path/newname.txt >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> On Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 08:31:04 UTC+1 daniel.l...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> tisdag 16 augusti 2022 kl. 21:36:21 UTC+2 skrev Fiddler: >>> >>>> I just took a closer look at what is displayed from the web browser and >>>> the repo browser. The file in question is actually a '\'. It displays as >>>> a '/' when trying to check out from the command line. >>>> >>> >>> Good find! There are, unfortunately, a few characters that can't be part >>> of valid filenames in Windows while still allowed in Subversion. I don't >>> know an exhaustive list by heart but '\' and ':' are two examples. >>> >>> The error displayed by the Repository Browser sure seems like a problem >>> in TortoiseSVN. I don't have the time to dig around at the moment though. >>> >>> I reproduced your issue and saw the same errors. I was able rename the >>> file using the svnmucc command line client (if you don't already have it >>> you can install it in the TortoiseSVN installer): >>> >>> C:\> *svnmucc mv https://server.example.com/svn/repo/path/\ >>> <https://server.example.com/svn/repo/path/%5C> >>> https://server.example.com/svn/repo/path/backslash >>> <https://server.example.com/svn/repo/path/backslash> -m "rename file with >>> illegal char"* >>> >>> The URLs are copied from the Repository Browser and the filename (here >>> just \) added. The new filename is in the end of the second URL (here >>> "backslash") is whatever you would like the new file to be called. -m is >>> the commit message. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Daniel >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tortoisesvn+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/a339d8ff-221f-4fc0-b5f6-625364d3376en%40googlegroups.com.
