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Re: Error diffing if tmp already exists in current folder

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-08-21 17:03:06 CEST

"Francois Beausoleil" <fbos@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Here's a transcript of what happened:
> K:\leadmanagement>svn diff -r PREV:HEAD src\web\WEB-INF\web.xml.in
> svn: Accès refusé.
> svn: svn_io_open_unique_file: error opening 'tmp'
>
> K:\leadmanagement>rd /s/q tmp
>
> K:\leadmanagement>svn diff -r PREV:HEAD src\web\WEB-INF\web.xml.in
> Index: src/web/WEB-INF/web.xml.in
> ===================================================================
> --- src/web/WEB-INF/web.xml.in (revision 299)
> +++ src/web/WEB-INF/web.xml.in (revision 301)
>
> K:\leadmanagement>svn --version
> svn, version 0.26.0 (r6550)
> compiled Aug 1 2003, 07:35:50
>
> Server is Win2K SP3, Apache 2.0.47, 0.26.0. Local workstation is same
> physical machine.
>
> I had to delete the tmp/ folder so that the diff could work.
>
> I would have expected Subversion to try and create another tmp/ folder
> with a suffix appended so that I would not have to delete the folder.
> Alternatively, the tmp/ folder could have been created in the .svn/
> administrative area.
>
> I searched the issues database and found 1128, which is something else
> altogether.
>
> Should I file an enhancement request ?

Yes, thank you; if you can write a short, portable reproduction script
that would be great, but even just the above is helpful.

You might also want to make bidirectional notes relating this issue
with issue #929.

-Karl

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