as a side note, windows users can use emacs w/out cygwin.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
(nothing against cygwin... just wanted to point out emacs' ubiquity.)
dave
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From: news [mailto:news@main.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Dylan Cuthbert
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:35 AM
To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: "same inode" problems with cygwin svn client
"Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> wrote in message
news:58C671173DB6174A93E9ED88DCB0883D04760B92@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.micros
oft.com...
> a) Cygwin == evil porting library
> So, any issues you have with using a svn client compiled under it are up
> for grabs. IMNSHO, any official svn client binary should be distributed
> using cygwin. If you want it to be compiled with GCC then use mingw.
Hey, cygwin isn't quite that evil, it gives windows users a breath of fresh
air, allowing the use of emacs, bash, even Xfree86.. not to mention about
another 500+ really useful unix tools and libraries.
> b) The warning is bogus. You don't necessarily have a corrupt file
> system.
That's good news! :-)
>
> Assuming the warning is valid, it's certainly possible to have a
> circular directory structure. That's what you can do with NTFS hard
> links, and funky NTFS reparse points.
There was a circular directory structure and somehow deleting it from the
bottom-up cured it, not sure why. I haven't had the problem again today,
but I am encountering other problems with svn and directories. (see other
mails)
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