Re: Cannot checkout or update from repository

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 15:29, Tony Marston
<tony_at_marston-home.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: 14 February 2010 18:34
>> To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
>> Subject: Re: Cannot checkout or update from repository
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 13:22, Tony Marston
>> <tony_at_marston-home.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Simon Large [mailto:simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com]
>> >> Sent: 14 February 2010 17:11
>> >> To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
>> >> Subject: Re: Cannot checkout or update from repository
>> >
>> >> Do you have 2 files in the same directory which differ only in
>> >> upper/lower-case-ness? That can never checkout on a
>> >>Windows machine.
>> >
>> > I emptied the directory before attempting another update,
>> > but I still get the same error.
>>
>> The conflict is when you have a filename collision in the repository.
>> The client gets the first file, then can't bring down the second
>> because to a case-insensitive system, it looks like the same filename.
>
> Ah Ha! That was the problem. I found several files in the repository which
> had the same spelling but different case. I deleted the duplicates and the
> 'update' function worked!

Consider installing case-insensitive.py as a pre-commit hook script to
prevent this from happening in the future. The Tooles & Contrib page
hasn't made it over to subversion.apache.org yet but you can get the
script from http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/

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