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Re: [repost] SVN commit error: svn_io_file_rename: can't move

From: mark benedetto king <mbk_at_lowlatency.com>
Date: 2003-09-29 18:14:48 CEST

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:19:12AM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> mark benedetto king <mbk@lowlatency.com> writes:
> > This is a known issue with svn on Win32. As far as we can tell, it is
> > an race-condition in Win32 itself, and not in our usage of it. We're
> > pretty confident of this for several reasons.
> >
> > There is a workaround patch floating around that simply retries the
> > move several times before giving up.
> >
> > This problem is likely to be exacerbated by products that walk into
> > .svn directories, such as anti-virus and indexing programs. You might
> > try disabling those sorts of things if you have them turned on.
>
> Thanks for the clarification, mbk. If there is not a FAQ on this
> already, would you be willing to write one? (Sounds like you know the
> most.)
>

Actually, D.J. Heap knows the most, I think, but if he doesn't respond
in the next day or two, I'd be happy to write a FAQ entry.

--ben

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