Re: TortoiseSVN - Issues when working in a sub-dir within a WC - "svn: warning: W155007: '.' is not a working copy"

On 08.11.2011 18:42, javier.jarava_at_rsa.com wrote:
> Hi al!
>
> I’ve recently updated to TortoiseSVN-1.7.1.22161-x64-svn-1.7.1.msi and
> I’m seeing an odd behavior. If I try to do any operation within a WC
> sub-dir directly from the command line (I installed the tools together
> with the GUI), I get an error:
>
> svn: warning: W155007: '.' is not a working copy
>
> And if I open an explorer window directly there, I get a context menu
> that **does not** include the Commit/Update/etc options that are normal
> in an WC. See “TSVN-Image1-08-11-2011 18-22-35.png”
>
> BUT if I open an Explorer window in the ROOT of the WC, and then click
> down to the same directory, then things seem to “wake up” and then the
> GUI gets the proper element, and the command line works… See
> “TSVN-Image2-08-11-2011 18-23-02.png”
>
> There is a similar behavior in the command line: initially what I did was:
>
> ·Open an Explorer window to the WC sub-dir
>
> ·Open a CMD shell there (using StExBar) and do an SVN ST there, which fails
>
> ·CD to the WC root (mapped to %svn% in my laptop), and then do an “svn
> st” on each dir before drilling down to the same folder and it works in
> all the folders in the middle…
>
> The shortened version of the CMD dialog is:
>
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
>
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort\<FOLDER1>\<FOLDER2>\<FOLDER3>
>
>>svn st
>
> svn: warning: W155007: '.' is not a working copy
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort\<FOLDER1>\<FOLDER2>\<FOLDER3>
>
>>cd %svn%
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort
>
>>svn st
>
> <<CORRECT SVN ST output>>
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort
>
>>cd <FOLDER1>
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort\<FOLDER1>
>
>>svn st
>
> <<CORRECT SVN ST output>>
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort\<FOLDER1>
>
>>cd <FOLDER2>
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort\<FOLDER1>\<FOLDER2>
>
>>svn st
>
> <<CORRECT SVN ST output>>
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort\\<FOLDER1>\<FOLDER2>
>
>>cd <FOLDER3>
>
> C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\SVN_CO_Tort\\<FOLDER1>\<FOLDER2>\<FOLDER3>
>
>>svn st
>
> <<CORRECT SVN ST output>>
>
> Once I’ve done that, things seem to work fine for that set of
> directories, but if I open a NEW explorer window to another path in the
> WC tree, I get the same behavior…
>
> This is extremely uncomfortable, as I have to go up and down in my “WC”
> tree every time that I need to use SVN – which makes it very inefficient…

That is a very very strange behavior. Especially since this happens with
the CL client as well - a client that doesn't store anything between
commands.

Please get the procmon tool from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645
and filter for 'svn.exe' and then try to repeat the problem with the CL
client.
Maybe the log shows something like access problems which might give a
hint what could be wrong here.

Stefan

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