On 2 mar 2008, at 02.10, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Doug Martin <martindg_at_slpasoft.com>
> wrote:
> Very new to the version control process and Subversion and having a
> recurring problem. I can find references to this problem in various
> lists but no solution that I can wrap my head around.
>
> Running two mac platforms - MacBook Plus (10.4.11) and iMac
> (10.4.11). I
> have svn installed on both machines and can create and populate
> repositories on either machine on local drive. When I mount the iMac
> from the MacBook I can create a repository on the mounted drive:
>
> svnadmin create /Volumes/Macintosh\
> HD/Users/user/Development/svn/new_sams - Works
>
> However, when I try to import into the repository I get an error.
>
> svn import /Library/WebServer/Documents/temp/ file:///Volumes/Macintosh
> \
> HD/Users/user/Development/svn/new_sams/ -m "install"
>
> svn: Can't get exclusive lock on file '/Volumes/Macintosh
> HD/Users/user/Development/svn/new_sams/db/transactions/0-1.txn/rev-
> lock':
> Operation not supported
>
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> I believe the issue here is that the filesystem that the repo is on
> does not support exclusive file locking. The solution here is to
> not use filesystems that don't support exclusive file-locking. I
> don't know any of the details of how the MAC <-> MAC network file
> sharing is implemented, but I think you are out of luck using that
> file access method. Stick to local drives or perhaps switch to NFS
> or something like that.
>
> Troy
>
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This is an issue with Berkeley DB. I don't think FSFS repositories
have this problem.
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Received on 2008-03-02 15:17:31 CET