RE: Re: Getting the SVN command line to work with Tortoise and SmartSVN clients

Aha! I think we are on to something. My SVN server is 1.3.0, but on my
workstation, my version is Subversion command-line client, version
1.2.1. I'll upgrade and try again.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of steveking
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:14 PM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Getting the SVN command line to work with Tortoise and
SmartSVN clients

Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Craig <Mike.Craig@freeclear.com> writes:
> Mike> I am running in WinXP with the dot_net_hack environement
> Mike> variable set.
>
> I think that explains it. Each svn client distinguishes working copy
> directories from regular ones by the presence of a subdirectory named
> ".svn" ... except when you're using the dot_net_hack, in which case
> it's named _svn.
>
> Mike> I execute an svn co svn://ServerName/Project
>
> ... creating Project/.svn

With an 1.3.x Subversion client (not matter if GUI or CL), that should
be 'Project/_svn' if the dot_net_hack variable is set.

> Mike> I open Windows explorer, and using TortoiseSVN
>
> ... which looks for Project/_svn, and doesn't find it, which leads to
>
> Mike> it is acting like these are not subversion files at all.

The only thing I can think of right now which would lead to such a
situation:
* The env variable is set (no reboot after that)
* a checkout with the CL client creates _svn dirs
* TSVN is started from the shell, which was started *before* the env
variable was set: that means that process (and all that are started from

such a process) don't have that env variable set.
* TSVN still thinks it has to use .svn dirs because it doesn't know
about the env variable being set.

So: reboot (or at least restart the shell by killing all "explorer"
processes) after setting the env variable!

One other thing: the TSVN nightlies are built against Subversion 1.4.x,
which uses a new wc format. Once the wc is updated, it can't be used
anymore with older clients.

Stefan

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