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Re: git-svn problems with white-space in tag names

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2013, 09:26 UTC
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Hans-Juergen Euler <waas.nett@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This seems to be a problem of the windows version. At least with its
> complete severity. Installed git on Ubuntu in a virtual machine was
> able to clone the subversion repos past the tag with the white-space
> at the end. I am not sure but apparently this tag has not been
> converted.
>
> The git repos I could copy from Ubuntu to windows. So far no problems
> seen in this copy on windows.
>

The cause of the problem is that the tagname isn't a valid filename on Windows, which git requires it to be.

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  1. Hans-Juergen EulerJan 23, 2013
  2. Hans-Juergen EulerJan 27, 2013
  3. Erik Faye-LundFeb 6, 2013

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