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Re: error when checking out

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2006d_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2006-11-08 20:15:05 CET

On Nov 8, 2006, at 06:35, emerson cargnin wrote:

> I constantly get this error:
>
> [exec] svn: Can't open file 'projects\nationals and
> agencies\com.yelldirect.nationalsandagencies\war-resin\src\test\java
> \com\yelldirect
> \nationalsandagencies\accounts\service\impl\.svn\tmp\text-base
> \MockFinancialDocumentServiceImpl.java.svn-base':
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> It's a clean checkout, actually, i do 3 checkouts using ant at the
> same time, but to different locations. Is it to do with the leght of
> the directory? Other times that it happened I moved to the root
> directory and then it solved. The directory Im checking into is 4
> levels from the root, plus the subdirectories that are shown in the
> error message.
>
> Is it a known issue???

Hmm... That path seems to be 216 characters long. There is a 255-
character relative-path-length limit when using Subversion on
Windows. (Unfortunately the problem is deep within the Windows APIs
and cannot be worked around by the Subversion team, as I understand
it.) I'm not sure if 216 characters is close enough to the 255 limit
that this is the problem. If it is, then the only solution is using a
shorter path.

But another common reason for this error message would be if you have
two files in this directory whose names differ only in case, for
example MockFinancialDocumentServiceImpl.java and
MockFinancialDocumentserviceImpl.java. The Subversion repository (and
most Linux filesystems) happily see these as two distinct files, but
Windows' (and Mac OS X's) case-insensitive filesystem sees them as
one, and unfortunately the error message printed is not very helpful.
The solution in this case is to remove one file or the other from the
repository, which you can either do on a case-sensitive filesystem
like Linux's or directly with URLs in the repository (e.g. "svn rm
http://server/path/to/MockFinancialDocumentserviceImpl.java"). To
prevent this situation from happening again in the future, you can
install a pre-commit hook as described here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#case-change

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