Re: Am I in an endless loop?

So just change the name of one of the files and you are good

On 2/21/07, Andy Levy <andy.levy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/21/07, Gaurav Kothiyal <kothiyal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just a if there are two files with the same name but the differ in their
> > case Eg foo.txt, Foo.txt
> >
> > Windows does not follow the unix naming convention
>
> You're right, I missed that there was a CardBalanceQuery.jsp and
> cardBalanceQuery.jsp.
>
> That's definitely going to cause a problem on Windows. Windows
> filesystems are case-preserving (at least NTFS is), but not
> case-sensitive, so a filename collision happens here.
>
>
> >
> > On 2/20/07, Andy Levy <andy.levy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2/20/07, James Tikalsky <TIKALSKY@michaels.com> wrote:
> > > > (A) I checked out a copy of a project that my colleague had been
> working
> > > > on, and got an error:
> > > >
> > > > D:\Temp>svn co svn://starteamw2k/web/trunk web2
> > > > .
> > > > .
> > > > .
> > > > svn: In directory
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus'
> > > > svn: Can't copy
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\.svn\tmp\t
> > > > ext-base\cardBalanceQuery.jsp.svn-base' to
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\cardBalanc
> > > > eQuery.jsp.tmp': The system cannot find the file specified.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > (B) I create the missing file by touching it:
> > > >
> > > > D:\Temp>touch
> > > >
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus.svn\tmp\tex
> > > > t-base\cardBalanceQuery.jsp.svn-base
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > (C) Then I try updating the project:
> > > >
> > > > D:\Temp>svn update
> > > > svn: Working copy '.' locked
> > > > svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
> > > > details)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > (D) Then I try cleaning up:
> > > >
> > > > D:\Temp>svn cleanup
> > > > svn: In directory
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus'
> > > > svn: Can't copy
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\.svn\tmp\t
> > > > ext-base\cardBalanceQuery.jsp.svn-base' to
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\cardBalanc
> > > > eQuery.jsp.3.tmp': The system cannot find the file specified.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I can repeat steps (B) and (D) again, and again, and the only
> difference
> > > > I see is the same error message, except that the "copy to" file name
> has
> > > > a different number, i.e:
> > > >
> > > > D:\Temp>touch
> > > >
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus.svn\tmp\tex
> > > > t-base\cardBalanceQuery.jsp.svn-base
> > > > D:\Temp>svn cleanup
> > > > svn: In directory
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus'
> > > > svn: Can't copy
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\.svn\tmp\t
> > > > ext-base\cardBalanceQuery.jsp.svn-base' to
> > > >
> > 'web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\cardBalanc
> > > > eQuery.jsp.4.tmp': The system cannot find the file specified.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here's what a status returns:
> > > >
> > > > D:\Temp>svn status web2
> > > > ! web2
> > > > ! web2\catalina_base
> > > > ! web2\catalina_base\commerce
> > > > ! web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF
> > > > ?
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\pageNotFound.jsp.tmp
> > > > ?
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\breadCrumbs.jsp
> > > > ?
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\PageNotFound.jsp
> > > > ! L web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp
> > > > ! web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\CardBalance
> > > > Query.jsp.2.tmp
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\cardBalance
> > > > Query.jsp.tmp
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\CardBalance
> > > > Query.jsp
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus\cardBalance
> > > > Query.jsp.3.tmp
> > > > ! L
> > web2\catalina_base\commerce\WEB-INF\jsp\commerce\orderstatus
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > After I did this about 1000 times, I'm still in the same situation.
> I
> > > > know that my colleague was using Eclipse Java Editor, and that the
> > > > numbered files are probably his local revisions. (I assume that he
> > > > checked them in, or something.) My question is: Am I doing something
> to
> > > > create an endless-loop situation? Should I take another approach, or
> is
> > > > there a light at the end of the tunnel?
> > >
> > > You can keep going in this loop but you aren't actually changing
> > > anything, so you're going to keep getting the same errors.
> > >
> > > Given the paths you quote, I assume you're on Windows. Have you tried
> > > disabling your virus scanner temporarily to see if things clear up?
> > > Some antivirus products don't play nicely at all with Subversion.
> > >
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> > --
> > Gaurav Kothiyal
>

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