How to ignore files that have colon in their names, when CVS checkout.

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Thu Jul 26 17:03:19 UTC 2007


wang cui wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a windows user, when I use TortoiseCVS to checkout the latest 
> FreeBSD src repository, it always failed at "src/usr.bin/window" module. 
> Because there are some files with colon in their names, such as ":tt".
> So doesn't anyone got this problem? How to resolve it?

If you have to check out that code, you should use an Operating System
which supports : in filenames, which means that Windows would not be a
good candidate.

Cheers,


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