Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

[Trevor Daniels]

John Mandereau Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:06 AM


> Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 15:32 +0000, Trevor Daniels a écrit :
> > I have a git problem with your recent commit
> > c553fc2251b508befebd1dc297c4baa898463f34 to clean up the build scripts.
>
> > The reason is that aux is a reserved word in Windows, along with a few
> > others like com, lpt1, nul, prn, Lpt4, and no directory can be given 
> > these
> > names.  The effect is that I can't update my git repository from
> > origin/master, which in turn means I can't push.
>
> Aargh.  This commit also implies creation of scripts/aux/.  I don't
> enjoy so much saying this, but the limitation we hit is worthwhile:
> Windows sucks, I wish there were only Unix OSes. :-)

I can't really apologise for Windows, and I wasn't aware of this
limitation until I hit this problem and investigated, but I'm sorry
this has caused you extra work.

> > Do you have any suggestions to get round this?
>
> What about replacing aux/ with auxiliar/ or helper/?  "auxiliar" is the
> Spanish for "to aid", it's only one character shorter than "auxiliary",
> but it's nicer than ugly abbreviations longer than "aux" like "auxi" or
> "auxil".  Well, this is kind of urgent for you Trevor, so let's not
> discuss too long: I'm renaming "aux" to "auxiliar".

The precise name is not very important.

I was worried I might not be able to get past the commit when I
updated my local repository, thinking git might still try to create
/aux before renaming it, but a reset hard to the new head seems
to have been effective.  Looks like I'm back in business!

Many thanks, John!  And my apologies again for the trouble.

Trevor