Problem with TortoiseSVN on Windows

Question

The problem is that I look at files with special characters in file names - when TortoiseSVN tries to check the code, it cannot create these files, and the check failed. this also applies to updating. Is there any fix / workaround for this, perhaps to provide an alternative file name or something else?

Update: Apparently, these files are created using xcode. Does anyone know what they are doing? Will it break the assembly if I change the file names, for example, everything > before - or something?

Answer 1

I do not think it can be done. As far as I know, both global-ignore and svn:ignore serve to store files only from the repository. The only solution I can think of is to check the entire repository on OS X, make changes, check the code, and import them back.

If the files are generated automatically using some kind of tool, you must set ignore rules to prevent them from re-entering the repository, depending on how the file names look.

Additional idea:. You can try installing the OS X partition / drive on your Windows system and see what naming conventions apply. I think, however, that Windows generally prohibits the use of reserved characters in all the files that it processes, regardless of whether the target file system supports them or not.

Answer 2

If you have write access, you can rename files directly to the repo using the repo browser without actually checking the file in the first place.