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RE: Subversion and the uchg flag on Mac OS X

From: Bill Williams <billwilliams_at_qcsoftware.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:05:43 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:stsp_at_elego.de]
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:02 PM
> To: Bill Williams
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Subversion and the uchg flag on Mac OS X
>
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 01:43:41PM -0400, Bill Williams wrote:
> > If this belongs in the develop group, let me know.
> >
> >
> >
> > We have recently switched over to a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server using SMB
> so our
> > windows computers can access the files on the server. To our dismay,
> we
> > have discovered that Mac OS X is turning on a flag called "uchg"
> whenever a
> > file is made read only which is what occurs with the entries file in
> the
> > .svn directory. This flag make the file unchangeable (immutable is
> what
> > they call it). Anyway, after that happens, any time subversion tries
> to
> > move tmp/entries to entries, it fails.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has dealt with this and perhaps
> could a
> > change be requested to perhaps change the mode on the file back to
> writable
> > before the move is attempted?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you
>
> This is already known.
> See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3053
>
> The hope is that the new working copy meta data store in 1.7.x will fix
> this.
>
> If you have the time you could help verifying if this problem has
> indeed been
> fixed by compiling Subversion's trunk code on Mac OS X and checking out
> a
> working copy with the resulting binary. Or wait until pre-release
> binaries for Mac OS X are available for testing and check back then.
> Thanks!

Actually, I'm thinking the problem will raise it's head when I use
Subversion on my windows machine since that is what will manipulate the
workspace and that's where I'm currently have the problem. Would this be
correct?
Received on 2011-04-04 21:06:23 CEST

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