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checking out mac resource forks, file checkout order

From: Richard Stephens <richard_at_createng.com.au>
Date: 2006-05-20 03:03:17 CEST

thanks, thats helpful. We do have machines running 10.3, but one of
the machines that will be accessing the repository is an intel imac,
and 10.4 isn't available on intel.

Is there a way to either make the OS not move the resource forks, or
to make subversion check out the ._ files first/

-Richard

On 19/05/2006, at 8:31 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On May 19, 2006, at 08:00, Richard Stephens wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to set up subversion to do source control, and the
>> files we're using have resource forks, which are not checked in by
>> subversion.
>>
>> I found that if I created a read/write UFS disk image, and copied
>> the source to there, it could be checked in and the resource fork
>> would be maintained in the form of a file with the same name but
>> with "._" before it.
>>
>> Only problem is, when i try to check them out, it fails on
>> seemingly random files. It's always the "._" files, and they
>> check out fine on a windows machine.
>>
>> In an attempt to isolate the problem, I pulled out a few small
>> files that cause it to fail from the main source tree, and checked
>> them in. When I checked them out again, it failed. Renaming them
>> by putting a 2 at the end makes it checkout properly but this is
>> not a satisfactory solution.
>>
>> This is what happens on the terminal:
>>
>> imac-intel-2ghz:/Volumes/Untitled 1 Richard$ /usr/local/bin/svn
>> checkout svn://192.168.51.3/gworldstest wd/
>> A wd/._QuickTime Work
>> A wd/QuickTime Work
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/._Gestalt
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/GWorlds
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/Gestalt
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/._GWorlds
>> svn: In directory 'wd/QuickTime Work'
>> svn: Can't copy 'wd/QuickTime Work/.svn/tmp/text-
>> base/._GWorlds.svn-base' to 'wd/QuickTime Work/._GWorlds.tmp': No
>> such file or directory
>> imac-intel-2ghz:/Volumes/Untitled 1 Richard$
>>
>> Gestalt was included because i wanted to use a file which I know
>> did not fail.
>>
>> Any idea? Thanks in advance
>
> On Mac OS X 10.4, Apple "helpfully" modified the built-in commands
> which move and copy and remove files, so that they also move and
> copy and remove the separate resource fork files on filesystems
> like UFS where they exist. So as soon as Subversion tells the OS to
> move foo from within the .svn directory to outside of it, the OS
> "helpfully" moves the ._foo file along with it. Subversion does not
> know that this has occurred, and thinks ._foo is still in the .svn
> directory waiting to be moved. So Subversion tells the OS to move
> the file ._foo, and—heavens to Betsy—it's not there and an error
> occurs.
>
> Possible conclusions one can draw from this:
>
> * Mac OS X 10.4 is broken.
> * Resource forks cannot be used with Subversion.
>
> The only solution I can suggest is to place your resource fork-
> containing files on a disk image, and check the disk image into
> Subversion. You'll no doubt be able to see why that's less than ideal.
>
> And the other solution is to use Mac OS X 10.3.x or earlier and
> never upgrade.
>
>

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