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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Martin <to...@mfriebe.de> on 2010/03/15 15:52:46 UTC

Tortoise Bug: Windows(Vista) mounted NTFS partition not usuable (not regocnized as directory)

First apologies, for I have done this the wrong way round and reported 
it already (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3604).
----


On Windows(Vista) it is possible to mount a partition (partition on the 
local / build-in drive) as a folder, instead of assigning it a drive letter.

In my setup I partitioned the build-in harddisk, making 2 partitions:
partition 1 has the drive-letter C:
partition 2 is mounted as C:\data  (C:\data has to be created as empty 
folder first, then the partition can be mounted)

If I try to checkout (new checkout) of a repository into C:\data I get:
- A warning which is correct:
   the folder is not empty (because there are some system folders, such 
as volume-info and recycle bin).
   I confirm that I still want to continue and this does work
- An error (which I believe to be a bug)
    C:\data' already exists and is not a directory


Similar if I copy (including hidden .svn folders) an existing checked 
out repository into C:\data some svn function (such as update or log) do 
no longer work (they still work on individual sub directories).

If you try "show log" on a repository copied into such a folder, 
tortoise claims "'C:' is not a working copy" => despite executing the 
command on "C:\data" (again subfolders in c:\data (that are part of the 
checkout) do work


Best Regards
Martin

Re: Tortoise Bug: Windows(Vista) mounted NTFS partition not usuable (not regocnized as directory)

Posted by "Hyrum K. Wright" <hy...@mail.utexas.edu>.
On Mar 16, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Martin wrote:

> On 16/03/2010 14:17, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> On Mar 15, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Martin wrote:
>>   
>>> First apologies, for I have done this the wrong way round and reported it already (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3604).
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> On Windows(Vista) it is possible to mount a partition (partition on the local / build-in drive) as a folder, instead of assigning it a drive letter.
>>>     
> ...
>>> If I try to checkout (new checkout) of a repository into C:\data I get:
>>> - An error (which I believe to be a bug)
>>>   C:\data' already exists and is not a directory
>>>     
>> Have you tried:
>> 
>> 1) Reporting this to the TortoiseSVN list?  It is a separate project, with it's own mailing lists.
>> 2) Reproducing the bug using the Subversion command line client?  A reproduction script using the command line client would help a dev address the issue much quicker.
>>   
> 
> Sorry, no. I was not aware of the presence of this list, not this bug-tracker.
> 
> Oddly I can no longer reproduce how I got to the subversion tracker/mail-list in first place. I started clicking from the tortoise homepage. Only guess I can take is, that when I was prompted to create an account, and then returned to "report a bug" I was no longer at the tortoise project?
> 
> Apologies for that. I didn't have the cmd-line client. I did install the Slik svn cmd line client => and that works correct.
> 
> Please feel free to close the report I made (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3604). I will discuss/report it on the tortoise list.

Thanks!  (And please don't take the back-and-forth personally.  It'll ultimately help the bug get fixed sooner.)

-Hyrum

Re: Tortoise Bug: Windows(Vista) mounted NTFS partition not usuable (not regocnized as directory)

Posted by Martin <to...@mfriebe.de>.
On 16/03/2010 14:17, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Martin wrote:
>    
>> First apologies, for I have done this the wrong way round and reported it already (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3604).
>> ----
>>
>> On Windows(Vista) it is possible to mount a partition (partition on the local / build-in drive) as a folder, instead of assigning it a drive letter.
>>      
...
>> If I try to checkout (new checkout) of a repository into C:\data I get:
>> - An error (which I believe to be a bug)
>>    C:\data' already exists and is not a directory
>>      
> Have you tried:
>
> 1) Reporting this to the TortoiseSVN list?  It is a separate project, with it's own mailing lists.
> 2) Reproducing the bug using the Subversion command line client?  A reproduction script using the command line client would help a dev address the issue much quicker.
>    

Sorry, no. I was not aware of the presence of this list, not this 
bug-tracker.

Oddly I can no longer reproduce how I got to the subversion 
tracker/mail-list in first place. I started clicking from the tortoise 
homepage. Only guess I can take is, that when I was prompted to create 
an account, and then returned to "report a bug" I was no longer at the 
tortoise project?

Apologies for that. I didn't have the cmd-line client. I did install the 
Slik svn cmd line client => and that works correct.

Please feel free to close the report I made 
(http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3604). I will 
discuss/report it on the tortoise list.

Thanks / Best Regard
Martin

Re: Tortoise Bug: Windows(Vista) mounted NTFS partition not usuable (not regocnized as directory)

Posted by "Hyrum K. Wright" <hy...@mail.utexas.edu>.
On Mar 15, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Martin wrote:

> First apologies, for I have done this the wrong way round and reported it already (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3604).
> ----
> 
> 
> On Windows(Vista) it is possible to mount a partition (partition on the local / build-in drive) as a folder, instead of assigning it a drive letter.
> 
> In my setup I partitioned the build-in harddisk, making 2 partitions:
> partition 1 has the drive-letter C:
> partition 2 is mounted as C:\data  (C:\data has to be created as empty folder first, then the partition can be mounted)
> 
> If I try to checkout (new checkout) of a repository into C:\data I get:
> - A warning which is correct:
>  the folder is not empty (because there are some system folders, such as volume-info and recycle bin).
>  I confirm that I still want to continue and this does work
> - An error (which I believe to be a bug)
>   C:\data' already exists and is not a directory
> 
> 
> Similar if I copy (including hidden .svn folders) an existing checked out repository into C:\data some svn function (such as update or log) do no longer work (they still work on individual sub directories).
> 
> If you try "show log" on a repository copied into such a folder, tortoise claims "'C:' is not a working copy" => despite executing the command on "C:\data" (again subfolders in c:\data (that are part of the checkout) do work

Have you tried:

1) Reporting this to the TortoiseSVN list?  It is a separate project, with it's own mailing lists.
2) Reproducing the bug using the Subversion command line client?  A reproduction script using the command line client would help a dev address the issue much quicker.

-Hyrum