On 28.02.2011 18:29, Eelke Spaak wrote:
> 2011/2/28 Felix Saphir<felix.saphir_at_kantarmedia.de>:
>> Am 28.02.2011 16:01, schrieb Eelke Spaak:
>>>
>>> Currently, I am using TortoiseSVN 1.6.12, 64bit version, on a 64-bit
>>> Windows 7 machine, and have checked out a repository to a folder on a
>>> mapped network drive.
>>
>> Don't do that! It's recommended to put working copies on local drives.
>
> Thanks for your response Felix. This FAQ
> (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/faq.html#ovlonlylocal) seems to suggest
> that it should be possible to use a network drive as a working copy.
> In any case, it would be really useful for me, since then I would be
> able to use both Linux and Windows programs accessing the same files.
>
>>> Whenever I try to commit (or check the status
>>> of) a file, the relevant dialog does pop up, but there is an error in
>>> the dialog: "Can't open file
>>> 'M:\fieldtrip-local\ft_singleplotTFR.m\.svn\entries': The directory
>>> name is invalid.". This error message was generated when trying to
>>> commit the *file* 'M:\fieldtrip-local\ft_singleplotTFR.m', so the
>>> directory name is indeed invalid.
>>
>> Well, the file ...\.svn\entries is part of the metadata of a working
>> copy, and the name is perfectly valid. I think this is a side-effect of
>> keeping the working copy on a network drive.
>
> The path that TortoiseSVN tries to access is not '..\.svn\entries' but
> '<somefolder>\ft_singleplotTFR.m\.svn\entries'.
> '<somefolder>\ft_singleplotTFR.m' is a file, and not a directory. So,
> it places a slash after a *file*name, not a directory name. Isn't this
> wrong in any case?
That's a known bug in the svn library. It won't get fixed for the 1.6.x
line anymore since it works on trunk (and therefore in the upcoming 1.7)
due to the rewrite of a lot of path APIs. But since those rewrites are
big and include new stuff, that won't get back-ported to 1.6.x.
Stefan
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