Re: Problems with using a symbolic link for .svn folder on TSVN

Oscar Lee wrote on Wed, 09 Jan 2019 19:10 +0100:
> My company uses TortoiseSVN internally to keep our files updated. The .svn
> folder for the project I have is massive (250GB) and as such I had to move
> it off to an external HDD. I created a symbolic link to the new location so
> that TortoiseSVN 'should' still continue to work.

How large are the working copy files not under the .svn/ directory?

If they're substantially smaller than 250GB, you might be running into this:
https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7#wc-pristines

> I managed to run a clean-up, but when I tried to revert a file, it gave me
> an error 'Failed to run the WC DB work queue associated with (file)" and
> "Can't move (tmp file) to ... (original file): The system cannot move the
> file to a different disk drive".
>
> I found that this error is caused by Windows not letting a file be renamed
> while it is being moved (
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/ms837428(v=msdn.10)).
> Does anyone know a solution to this?

> Why is this an issue that only occurs with a symbolic link setup?

Subversion assumes that it is possible to atomically move a file from
the .svn directory to the working copy's checked out files. That would
not possible when the .svn directory is on a different drive / filesystem.
Received on 2019-01-10 13:36:24 CET