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Re: svn diff doesn't work from somebody else's working copy

From: Theo Van Dinter <felicity_at_kluge.net>
Date: 2006-07-18 02:40:56 CEST

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:58:48PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> If I'm in a working copy that somebody else has checked out, and do
> 'svn diff', I get a response like this:
> luai6$ svn diff
> svn: Can't open '.svn/tmp/cycleRms.tcl.tmp': Permission denied
[...]
> I would have tried to file a feature request with the issue tracker,
> but it told me in no uncertain terms that I was supposed to e-mail
> here first. (A search didn't turn up any evidence that the issue was
> already filed.)

I'm not sure why you think this is a bug in subversion. It looks like
a problem of file permissions. If you need this kind of functionality,
set the umask appropriately, etc, the same as you'd have to anytime you
want to share access like this.

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