Re: Cygwin repositories

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Hi, I've got a bit of a problem in that I have both Cygwin-based svn
> directories, and non-Cygwin based ones on my Windows machine.
>
> The best possible thing would be if TortioseSVN would just work properly
> with the Cygwin repositories. (Right now it does some things ok, but
> chekins fail reporting that they can't find the repository named
> 'file:///c/some/cygwin/path').

Hi Bill,

I have limited experience using a common working copy shared by Cygwin
and regular win32 clients. To make it work you need to do a few things:

  1. use a server e.g. run svnserve on your machine so instead of
file:///c/myrepo you use svn://localhost/myrepo

  2. figure out if you can set your umask so files written by cygwin are
fully writable by win32 clients. Cygwin tends to mess with file ACLs
such that clients like TortoiseSVN will not be able to write to the
files after cygwin's svn has touched them.

  3. make sure your cygwin environment is using *unix* line endings.
Otherwise the cygwin svn client cannot control output line endings
because cygwin always overrides. (I.e. svn export --eol-type=LF will
still give you CRLF if cygwin is set to DOS line endings)

HTH,

-Nathan

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