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Re: 'svn: Can't copy' when cheking out filenames with spaces

From: cleber <cleber_at_3wcom.com.br>
Date: 2006-08-10 22:13:34 CEST

>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 01:42, cleber wrote:
>
>> I'm using Subversion 1.3 on MacOSX 10.4.7 to check out files from
>> my server, which is running Subversion 1.3.2 on Linux (Red Hat 9).
>
>> When I tried to check out the project with the command:
>>
>> $ svn co -r 2 svn+ssh://svn@172.23.0.6/sofia_agencia/trunk
>>
>> I got the following error :
>>
>> svn: Can't copy 'trunk/.svn/tmp/text-base/Relatorio de
>> processos.txt.svn-base' to 'trunk/Relatorio de processos.txt.tmp':
>> No such file or directory
>>
>> I guess it has something to do with the shell trying to interpret
>> the spaces on the filename.
>>
>> I tried to checkout the project on a Windows NT box and got the
>> same error.
>
> No, there's definitely no problem with filenames with spaces. I
> just confirmed that this works fine on Mac OS X 10.4.7.
>
> Are you perhaps instead having a case collision? Although a
> Subversion repository is case-insensitive and has no trouble
> storing a file called "Relatorio de processos.txt" and a file
> called "relatorio de processos.txt" in the same directory, both
> Windows and Mac OS X by default use case-insensitive filesystems
> and cannot handle that situation. Use "svn ls" on the repository
> URL to the relevant directory to see if this is the problem in your
> case. If so, the solution, as you discovered, is to rename one, or
> delete one, in case they're duplicates of one another.
>

As it turns out, it was a case collision like you said. I didn't
notice it at first due to the large amount of files on the directory.
Thanks for the advice!

Cleber

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