20.09.2013, 13:16, "Van Den Berghe, Vincent" <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > When doing an SVN update to get the latest WebKit tree on Windows, I get the > following error: > > Failed to run the WC DB work queue associated with > > 'C:\cygwin\home\vvdb\WebKit\LayoutTests\fast\hidpi\resources', work item > > 193377 (file-install LayoutTests/fast/hidpi/resources/image?test.png 1 0 1 1) > > Can't move 'C:\cygwin\home\vvdb\WebKit\.svn\tmp\svn-9BDA1924' to > > 'C:\cygwin\home\vvdb\WebKit\LayoutTests\fast\hidpi\resources\image?test.png': > > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. > > The reason is that “image?test.png' is not a valid filename on Windows. > What’s worse, after this error the “svn cleanup” doesn’t work anymore because > SVN tries to undo something that can’t be done by definition. > > The only way to restore the local tree to a valid state is either (1) restore > it from a backup, or (2) find the entry in .svn/wc.db (which is an sqlite > database) and remove it manually. > > There should be a way for these kinds of problems to be prevented or > corrected as soon as possible (being able to “svn update” is kind of a > fundamental thing). I can’t even patch because my tree is invalid L.
You can use git mirror instead of svn to be resistant to such issues when they happen. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
