MPLAB IDE crashes on project open

I have been looking at Subversion/TortoiseSVN for a couple of weeks now, and am most impressed. However, despite working with every other application with which I have tried it (Microsoft VC++ and a couple of embedded IDEs), it crashes MPLAB IDE.

MPLAB IDE is a free microcontroller development environment from Microchip...
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002

If .svn is in the working directory when MPLAB opens a project before it has closed it, MPlab.exe throws an Application Error. However, if I remove the .svn folder from the working directory MPLAB works happily. If I open and close my project (with or without saving) and subsequently restore .svn to the working directory everything works properly (I can use both SVN/TortoiseSVN and MPLAB.

My projects make no reference to the content of .svn (in fact I didn't know that it was there until I started to investigate the problem. I am using Windows2000 sp4, MPLAB 6.62, Subversion 1.1.1 and TortoiseSVN 1.1.1 and can reliably reproduce the 'anomaly' on any workstation.

Does anyone have recent experience of using SVN with MPLAB? This is a bit of a 'show stopper' for me, so I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions.

Thanks,

Bill
Received on Thu Oct 28 17:25:27 2004