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Re: Re: BUG: '\' is not a working copy [v1.6.5, Windows XP]

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:36:46 -0400

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:09, Voronov, Yury (NIH/NLM)
[C]<voronov_at_ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> It seems like I have a bug with TortoiseSVN 1.6.5 (last stable).
>> >>
>> >> So, what happens? I have Windows XP SP3 on my machine, and
>> >> I have a working directory on my disk - C:\work. And I have
>> >> a subst'ed drive W: => C:\work just for easier handling
>> >> of my code.
>> >>
>> >> And I have edited two files,
>> >> C:\work\include\dir\file.hpp and C:\work\src\dir\file.cpp
>> >> (Or W:\include\dir\file.hpp and W:\src\dir\file.cpp, respectively)
>> >>
>> >> Now I try to commit my changes. I go to File Explorer and
>> >> start Commit from the root directory W:\ After that a list
>> >> of changed files with both files appears (it's OK), then
>> >> I enter a comment and press OK. And the log screen comes
>> >> showing an error "'\' is not a working copy" in red.
>> >>
>> >> However, if I start Commit from C:\work (which is actually
>> >> exactly the same directory) everything works fine!
>> >>
>> >> So it seems to me that TortoiseSVN has problems with root
>> >> directory as a tree root.
>> >>
>> >> BTW, same commits from svn command-line client both work fine.
>>
>> > Nope, the command line doesn't work either:
>> >
>> > $svn commit C:\work\include\dir\file.hpp C:\work\src\dir\file.cpp -m
>> ""
>> > will fail the very same way.
>>
>> Stefan, the matter is that I checked it before I posted it.
>>
>> I used Cygwin svn command-line client v1.6.4, and both commits
>> from W:\ and from C:\work do work fine.
>>
>> However, for TortoiseSVN just one commit works - from C:\work
>> If I try to commit from W:\, it fails with error "'\' is not a working
>> copy".
>
> More details: when I use Subversion's svn command line client,
> the behavior is the same as TortoiseSVN - commits from C:\work
> do work fine, and commits from W:\ fail with the same error.

OK, so now you have confirmed that the problem is not with Tortoise,
but with the Subversion libraries.

Which, incidentally, was also confirmed last week.
http://groups.google.com/group/tortoisesvn/browse_thread/thread/680ce6eeed725505?pli=1

> And this was not the case for version 1.4.3 - I have this
> configuration (with subst) for long time (more than a year)
> and I was forced to update recently.

You'll have to take the issue to the Subversion mailing list.

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