Re: Changing repository name?

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> $ svn ci
>> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>> svn: Can't open activity db: Permission denied
>
> I guess you moved the dir under with root but are trying to access it with a
> user only in group subversion, or some similar issue. Make sure the
> permissions on the files are setup properly. An indicator for messed up
> permissions is that you also can't checkout anything.

Thanks. It was a permission problem, but not what I expected. I cleverly
copied the repository to its new location with rsync, as the user that
owned the repository. So some files that were owned by apache lost their
ownership.

The lesson is: If you are going to rsync a repository instead of simply
renaming, it's necessary to do it as root or otherwise ensure that
ownership is preserved.

>
> Uli
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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