Re: svn status returns incorrect results on Windows 7

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Justin Johnson
<justinandtonya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Konstantin Kolinko
> <knst.kolinko_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/1/27 Justin Johnson <justinandtonya_at_gmail.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am running Subversion 1.7.2 64 bit installer from CollabNet on
>>> Windows 7.  The problem I'm experiencing can be seen in the output
>>> below.  In summary, svn status is returning incorrect results,
>>> sometimes not showing that something has been modified and sometimes
>>> not recognizing that I'm in a working copy.  This happens for me no
>>> matter how many times I recreate the working copy, and it happens if I
>>> store the working copy in C:\Users... as below or in C:\work.  I do
>>> not have the same problem when trying to reproduce the problem with
>>> svn 1.7.2 on Solaris.
>>>
>>> PS C:\Users\myuser\wc> svn st
>>> M       a\b\file.txt
>>> PS C:\Users\myuser\wc> cd a
>>> PS C:\Users\myuser\wc\a> svn st
>>> PS C:\Users\myuser\wc\a> cd b
>>> PS C:\Users\myuser\wc\a\b> svn st
>>> svn: warning: W155007: '.' is not a working copy
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why this is happening?  I searched for this problem
>>> and only found TortoiseSVN users complaining about it, and some
>>> suggestions to make sure the user has full control of the filesystem.
>>> I did this without resolution, but decided to post here since it is a
>>> Subversion issue (with Windows 7 perhaps) and not a TortoiseSVN issue.
>>>
>>
>> It can happen because of wrong capitalization in the path.
>>
>> Are "a" and "b" real names? Are you able to reproduce this with the
>> Greek tree (repro-template.bat) [1]? Did you do the checkout with
>> command-line client or with Tortoise?
>>
>>
>> AFAIK, Tortoise 1.7.3+ does some additional work to normalize paths
>> before passing them to Subversion library methods. (TSVN issue 156.
>> There was notorious bug in that code - issue 169. Fixed in TSVN 1.7.4
>> [2]).
>>
>> In my experience Windows command shell also does some normalization
>> when I do "cd" command.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/issues.html#reporting-bugs
>> [2] http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/issues/detail?id=156
>> http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/issues/detail?id=169
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Konstantin Kolinko
>
> Thank you so much for the reply.  It *does* have to do with
> capitalization.  I never would have guessed that.  If I cd into
> directories and always use the correct case, the commands work fine
> every time.  If I cd into a path using the incorrect case, I of course
> am able to cd but then svn doesn't return the correct results.
>
> Does anyone know if there are plans to fix this behavour in Subversion
> as opposed to working around them in TortoiseSVN?

It's not clear to me whether this is a problem in Subversion core (in
which case TSVN now has a good workaround, but it should really be
fixed in SVN), or TSVN calling the API in an incorrect way (in which
case the only fix is in TSVN --- it could also still be a "bug" in the
specs of the API of course).

Maybe this is the same issue as the one reported here:

    http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-01/0247.shtml

AFAIK, Bert Huijben was looking into that, but I'm not sure whether
he's close to fixing it.

-- 
Johan