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Read-only files in .svn causing problems w/ move + delete
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Hello,
For some reason whenever I add and commit a new directory to subversion it creates read-only files in the new .svn directory. For example, here is a
listing of one particular .svn directory:
[root@enigma-purple .svn]# uname -a
Linux *********** 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 1 11:24:45 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1900+ unknown GNU/Linux
[root@enigma-purple .svn]# ls -la
total 5242880
drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 ..
- -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 empty-file
- -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 348 Aug 22 17:52 entries
- -rwxr--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 2 Aug 22 17:52 format
drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 prop-base
drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 props
- -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 118 Aug 22 17:52 README.txt
drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 text-base
drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 wcprops
I don't necessarily have a problem with this except that when I go to move or delete directories under sunbversion control I invariably get permission
denied errors and the commit 'half' fails - meaning, it seems to make the changes in subversion but my working copy becomes a bit mangled...
The following is a 'round-about' log of my previous attempt at moving a directory:
[root@enigma-purple]# ls
branches tag trunk
[root@enigma-purple]# svn move tag tags
A tags
D tag
[root@enigma-purple]# ls
branches tag tags trunk
[root@enigma-purple]# svn commit -m "Renamed 'tag' directory to 'tags'"
svn@XXXXX's password:
Deleting tag
Adding tags
svn: Commit succeeded, but other errors follow:
svn: Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
svn: Can't remove '/mnt/media/code/project/tag/.svn/entries'
svn: Can't remove file '/mnt/media/code/project/tag/.svn/entries': Permission denied
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This is where things got messy and I'm including the log of commands I went through trying to figure out a solution. Not really concerned w/ what I
did wrong here but thought I would include this to show how I eventually remedied the problems caused by the above:
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[root@enigma-purple]# chmod 777 /mnt/media/code/project/tag/.svn/entries
[root@enigma-purple]# svn commit -m "Renamed 'tag' directory to 'tags'"
svn: Working copy '/mnt/media/code/project' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
[root@enigma-purple]# svn cleanup
[root@enigma-purple]# svn commit -m "Renamed 'tag' directory to 'tags'"
svn@XXXXX's password:
Adding tags
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Out of date: '/project/tags' in transaction 'a'
[root@enigma-purple]# ls
branches tag tags trunk
[root@enigma-purple]# svn delete tag
svn: Use --force to override this restriction
svn: 'tag' is not under version control
[root@enigma-purple]# rm -fr tag
rm: cannot remove `tag/.svn/empty-file': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `tag/.svn/README.txt': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `tag/.svn/log': Permission denied
[root@enigma-purple]# chmod 777 tag/.svn/*
[root@enigma-purple]# rm -fr tag
[root@enigma-purple]# svn status
A + tags
[root@enigma-purple]# svn add tags
svn: warning: 'tags' is already under version control
[root@enigma-purple]# svn commit -m "Renamed 'tag' directory to 'tags'"
svn@XXXXX's password:
Adding tags
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Out of date: '/project/tags' in transaction 'b'
[root@enigma-purple]# svn update
svn@XXXXX's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
svn@XXXXX's password:
svn: Failed to add directory 'tags': object of the same name already exists
[root@enigma-purple]# svn commit -m "Renamed 'tag' directory to 'tags'"
svn@XXXXX's password:
Adding tags
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Out of date: '/project/tags' in transaction 'c'
[root@enigma-purple project]# svn delete tags
svn: Use --force to override this restriction
svn: 'tags' has local modifications
[root@enigma-purple project]# svn --force delete tags
svn: Can't remove 'tags/.svn/empty-file'
svn: Can't remove file 'tags/.svn/empty-file': Permission denied
[root@enigma-purple project]# chown -R 777 tags/.svn/*
chown: changing ownership of `tags/.svn/empty-file': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `tags/.svn/entries': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `tags/.svn/README.txt': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `tags/.svn/text-base': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `tags/.svn/wcprops': Operation not permitted
[root@enigma-purple project]# chmod -R 777 tags/.svn/*
[root@enigma-purple project]# svn --force delete tags
svn: Working copy '.' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
[root@enigma-purple project]# svn cleanup
[root@enigma-purple project]# svn status
? tags
! .
[root@enigma-purple]# ls
branches tags trunk
[root@enigma-purple]# rm -fr tags
[root@enigma-purple]# svn update
svn@XXXXX's password:
A tags
Updated to revision 7.
[root@enigma-purple]# ls
branches tags trunk
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Re: Read-only files in .svn causing problems w/ move + delete
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> And yet, if you work as user jacobc, even though the permissions say
> not to write to the files, it can, and it does. Why is that the case
> for a normal user but not for root?
Subversion knows it created read-only files, and makes them writable
before modifying them.
Some Unix flavours won't let you chmod a file unless you're its owner,
even if you're root.
-- Brane
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Re: Read-only files in .svn causing problems w/ move + delete
Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On 23.08.2005, at 10:51, Stephan Zeissler wrote:
>>>> [root@enigma-purple .svn]# ls -la
>>> ^^^^^^
>>>
>>>> total 5242880
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 .
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 ..
>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 empty-file
>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 348 Aug 22 17:52 entries
>>>> -rwxr--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 2 Aug 22 17:52 format
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 prop-base
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 props
>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 118 Aug 22 17:52 README.txt
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 text-base
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 tmp
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 wcprops
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> I bet this (^^^) is the problem. Did you checkout as another user
>>> (jacobc) and trying to work as root?
>>>
>>> Try to work with the same user on a working directory (seem to
>>> does not
>>> matter whether on of them is root or not).
>>
>> That seems to have been the problem. Thanks. I didn't think that
>> would be the cause since root, of course, can generally do
>> whatever it wants to...
>
> Sure, it can modify the rights on every file. But if the rights say
> "DO NOT WRITE TO THIS FILE", no programm does.
> The root user is just allowed to modify every flag on file, but it
> does not do this automatically if you try to write to a file.
And yet, if you work as user jacobc, even though the permissions say
not to write to the files, it can, and it does. Why is that the case
for a normal user but not for root?
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Re: Read-only files in .svn causing problems w/ move + delete
Posted by Stephan Zeissler <st...@kuttig.com>.
Jacob C wrote:
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>That seems to have been the problem. Thanks. I didn't think that would be the cause since root, of course, can generally do whatever it wants to...
>
>
>
>Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
>
>
>>Jacob C wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>For some reason whenever I add and commit a new directory to
>>>subversion it creates read-only files in the new .svn directory. For
>>>example, here is a
>>>listing of one particular .svn directory:
>>>
>>>[root@enigma-purple .svn]# uname -a
>>>Linux *********** 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 1 11:24:45 CEST 2004
>>>i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1900+ unknown GNU/Linux
>>>[root@enigma-purple .svn]# ls -la
>>>
>>>
>> ^^^^^^
>>
>>
>>
>>>total 5242880
>>>drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 .
>>>drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 ..
>>>-r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 empty-file
>>>-r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 348 Aug 22 17:52 entries
>>>-rwxr--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 2 Aug 22 17:52 format
>>>drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 prop-base
>>>drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 props
>>>-r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 118 Aug 22 17:52 README.txt
>>>drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 text-base
>>>drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 tmp
>>>drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 wcprops
>>>
>>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>I bet this (^^^) is the problem. Did you checkout as another user
>>(jacobc) and trying to work as root?
>>
>>Try to work with the same user on a working directory (seem to does not
>>matter whether on of them is root or not).
>>
>>Kalin.
>>
>>
>>
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Sure, it can modify the rights on every file. But if the rights say "DO
NOT WRITE TO THIS FILE", no programm does.
The root user is just allowed to modify every flag on file, but it does
not do this automatically if you try to write to a file.
Greetings,
Stephan
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Re: Read-only files in .svn causing problems w/ move + delete
Posted by Jacob C <ja...@keystreams.com>.
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That seems to have been the problem. Thanks. I didn't think that would be the cause since root, of course, can generally do whatever it wants to...
Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> Jacob C wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For some reason whenever I add and commit a new directory to
>> subversion it creates read-only files in the new .svn directory. For
>> example, here is a
>> listing of one particular .svn directory:
>>
>> [root@enigma-purple .svn]# uname -a
>> Linux *********** 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 1 11:24:45 CEST 2004
>> i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1900+ unknown GNU/Linux
>> [root@enigma-purple .svn]# ls -la
>
> ^^^^^^
>
>> total 5242880
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 ..
>> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 empty-file
>> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 348 Aug 22 17:52 entries
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 2 Aug 22 17:52 format
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 prop-base
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 props
>> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 118 Aug 22 17:52 README.txt
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 text-base
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 tmp
>> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 wcprops
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I bet this (^^^) is the problem. Did you checkout as another user
> (jacobc) and trying to work as root?
>
> Try to work with the same user on a working directory (seem to does not
> matter whether on of them is root or not).
>
> Kalin.
>
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Re: Read-only files in .svn causing problems w/ move + delete
Posted by Kalin KOZHUHAROV <ka...@thinrope.net>.
Jacob C wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For some reason whenever I add and commit a new directory to subversion it creates read-only files in the new .svn directory. For example, here is a
> listing of one particular .svn directory:
>
> [root@enigma-purple .svn]# uname -a
> Linux *********** 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 1 11:24:45 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1900+ unknown GNU/Linux
> [root@enigma-purple .svn]# ls -la
^^^^^^
> total 5242880
> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 ..
> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 empty-file
> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 348 Aug 22 17:52 entries
> -rwxr--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 2 Aug 22 17:52 format
> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 prop-base
> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 props
> -r--r--r-- 1 jacobc jacobc 118 Aug 22 17:52 README.txt
> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 text-base
> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 1 jacobc jacobc 0 Aug 22 17:50 wcprops
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I bet this (^^^) is the problem. Did you checkout as another user
(jacobc) and trying to work as root?
Try to work with the same user on a working directory (seem to does not
matter whether on of them is root or not).
Kalin.
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