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Re: identical copies of directories -> extra space?

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-03-14 15:39:07 CET

Seth Delackner <seth@jtan.com> writes:

> > 'svn copy URL URL'?
> >
> > The directory copy only takes up a tiny, constant amount of space in
> > the repository. It's like a hard-link.
>
> Maybe I'm dumb, but since both the build tree and the source tree are
> in the same repository, subversion is getting angry when I try to
> commit the copy:
>
> Adding (bin)
> build/Foo.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/
> keyedobjects.nib
> subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:658: (apr_err=160020)
> svn: Item already exists in filesystem
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> subversion/libsvn_fs/tree.c:203: (apr_err=160020)
> svn: file already exists: filesystem `/Users/seth/svn/repos/db',
> transaction `i', path
> `/Foo/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/keyedobjects.nib'
> subversion/clients/cmdline/util.c:311: (apr_err=160020)
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> subversion/clients/cmdline/util.c:311: (apr_err=160020)
> svn: '/Users/seth/pb/Foo/svn-commit.tmp'

I don't see your original copy command, but 'svn cp' won't overwrite
things. You have to copy a tree to a clean area.

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