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Re: How can I remove incorrect svn:special property?

From: <ismael.casimpan_at_buggedtech.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:50:23 +0800

How about if you try setting the property to "" that is, an empty
property?

Don't know, but it might help

Good Luck

Ismael:)

On 02 19, 08, at 5:22 AM, kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote:

> Ok, somehow one of my users has a file with the svn:special
> property set
> to "*",
> but the file isn't a link. (It *was* a link that they replaced
> with the
> file
> contents and somehow the svn:special property stuck around.) I
> haven't
> been able to reproduce this on unix yet, so it may have been a combo
> of Unix and Windows...
>
> Anyway, how can you remove that property? A checkout of the directory
> results in an error about "'file.txt' has unsupported special file
> type".
>
> And you can't "svn propdel URL" with the 1.4 version of Subversion,
> and my snapshot 1.5 client from 02/14 says "needs a base revision",
> but if I specify a revision with -r it says "Cannot specify revision
> for setting versioned property 'svn:special'".
>
> What is the syntax for the 1.5 client to do remote propset/propdel?
>
> svn propdel svn:special http://myserver/path/to/file.txt
>
> NOTE: (The user(s) were using 1.4.x versions of Subversion. I
> just tried a snapshot of 1.5 since it is supposed to support
> some of these remote operations on properties.)
>
> Any solution other than remotely delete the file and re-add it as a
> normal file?
>
> Kevin R.
>
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