scratch that... I can't delete it in windows.. explorer freezes so maybe I
do have something wrong in there. However, I've never encountered this kind
of problem before and I use cygwin/win2k extensively. Its a little too much
of a coincidence that it has occured exactly in the svn directory. Is there
some kind of hard-linking going on?
now to run chkdsk again :(
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"Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan@q-games.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there, I'm not sure what's causing this, but when I rm -rf a repository
> recently checked out remotely from subversion I get this rather dangerous
> sounding warning:
>
> rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure.
> This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
> NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER.
> The following two directories have the same inode number:
>
> test/repo
> `test/repo/branch/projects/game/libs/landscape/.svn/tmp/props'
>
>
> I've run chkdsk etc, on the drive (win2k/NTFS) and it finds no problems at
> all.
>
> This might be caused because I was playing/testing with the svn cp and svn
> rm commands, but I have no idea. I'll keep experimenting today and see if
I
> can reproduce it. (I have had it twice now in separate repositories)
>
> I can delete the offending directories from the windows File Explorer and
> don't get any complaints.
>
> What's going on?
>
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