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Re: checkout results in "... directory may be missing or corrupt"

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:28:19 +0100

On 3/5/08, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Schroeder, Hartmut
> <Hartmut.Schroeder_at_plath.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > on windows a checkout
> > svn checkout http://srv-ew-data:9080/csc-base
> >
> > results in
> > "your .svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt"
> >
> > exactly:
> >
> > A csc-test\trunk\PdeProjects\UserPrivilegesAPI\plugins\de.plath.csc.userprivileges\src\test\java\de\plath\csc\userprivileges\acegi\dataManagement\inmemory
> > svn: Ihr .svn/tmp Verzeichnis könnte fehlen oder beschädigt sein; führen Sie
> > »svn cleanup« aus und versuchen Sie es erneut
> > svn: Kann Datei
> > »csc-test\trunk\PdeProjects\UserPrivilegesAPI\plugins\de.plath.csc.userprivileges\src\test\java\de\plath\csc\userprivileges\acegi\dataManagement\inmemory\.svn\tmp\text-base\UserProviderTests.java.svn-base«
> > nicht öffnen: Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden.
> >
> > I know the maximal path length under windows is 255 chars, and that seems to be here the case.
> >
> > Is there a workaround or is subversion under windows not to use ?
>
> Subversion works perfectly fine on Windows, within the limits of
> Windows itself (which is what you're running into here).
>
> Can you check out at a deeper level? You're checking out from a
> directory above the trunk - this implies to me that you need to check
> out trunk, tags and branches (assuming your repository has them).
> Could you check trunk out directly to a directory off the root of your
> drive (to shorten the path)?

Or alternatively, you can use Windows absolute paths, which will be
converted to paths of maximum length 65535 characters...

HTH,

Erik.
Received on 2008-03-05 13:28:51 CET

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