On Jun 4, 2008, at 18:48, me_at_johnea.net wrote:
> Recently the sub-directories within the working copy for several
> evolving
> projects were renamed via svn mv on my local working copy and
> committed as
> usual. However when the remote user attempted to update a variety of
> errors occurred. Today onsite at the remote location I attempted a
> number
> of manuvers to encourage svn to update the working copy.
>
> My last attempt was simply to rename the local working copy and
> re-checkout the entire repository. That added a list of files and
> eventually crashed with the following error message:
> ...
> A johnea/project04-Menon/pp/pretty-packet
> A johnea/project04-Menon/pp/Q.pkt
> A johnea/project04-Menon/pp/pretty-packet.c
> svn: In directory 'johnea/project04-Menon/pp'
> svn: Can't move source to dest
> svn: Can't move
> 'johnea/project04-Menon/pp/.svn/tmp/prop-base/u.pkt.svn-base' to
> 'johnea/project04-Menon/pp/.svn/prop-base/u.pkt.svn-base': No such
> file or
> directory
>
> The directory pp/ has been at the center of all issued error
> messages. The
> original update failed saying this directory was locked or that a
> certain
> file within this directory was not a working copy, or that the same
> file
> failed executing modify-wcprop. The file complained about has
> binary data.
>
> My originating local working copy is from a linux workstation
> running svn
> 1.4.5 on the command line.
>
> The server is FreeBSD running svn server 1.3.0
>
> The receiving/updating workstation is windows running tortoiseSVN
> 1.4.5
> and cygwin command line svn 1.4.5.
>
> At first, since the trouble originated on the windows platform I
> thought
> the issue could be TortoiseSVN related, but today I used only cygwin
> command line svn and receivedd the same error messages.
>
> This all seems to have stemmed from renaming the directories within
> the
> repository. Even when I originally issued the svn mv commands on my
> local
> linux working copy and committed the results I had the odd
> experience of
> having to then update my local copy before my changes appeared there.
>
> I've been attempting to debug this for several days now and am
> running out
> of ideas. Any help understanding what's going on are very gratefully
> appreciated.
Is there a case collision maybe? Do you have two files in the
repository whose names differ only in case (like u.pkt and U.PKT for
example), and are you trying to check out to a case-insensitive file
system? Try "svn ls" on the URL to the directory in the repository
where u.pkt is to check.
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Received on 2008-06-05 09:36:05 CEST