Re: svn move doesn't appear to take absolute paths

On May 22, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Dan Ellis wrote:

> In a recent thread I've been trying to figure out the best way to deal with case sensitivity issues (in particular, finding out the clashing case sensitive path). It doesn't appear that I'll be able to solve that one readily, so I plan to convert all our existing mixed case entries to lower case entries and really focus on the users to work this way.
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> So I need to rename a bunch of directories and thought a script would handle this well. I want to work in a WC vs directly on the repo so I can verify other changes before I do a big commit (or series of commits). I ran into something surprising though, svn move does not appear to handle absolute working paths:
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> c:\>svn mv "c:\project_files\sandbox\foo\Bar" "C:\project_files\sandbox\foo\bar"
> svn: E155004: Run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
> svn: E155004: Working copy 'C:\Project_files\sandbox\foo\Bar' locked.
> svn: E155004: 'C:\Project_files\sandbox\foo\' is already locked.
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> yet using relative paths does seem to work fine:
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> c:\Project_files\sandbox>svn move ./foo/Bar ./foo/bar
> <bunch of adds/deletes>

I didn't think doing case-only renames was possible when using a case-insensitive filesystem. But I see now that this became possible on Windows in Subversion 1.7:

http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#case-change

Maybe the Windows-specific code that was added to handle this did not anticipate absolute paths being used.
Received on 2014-05-24 06:22:08 CEST