Unsupported special file type

[Guillaume <gu...@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello,

I was using svn 1.1.0-rc1 to play with symlinks et upgraded recently to 
1.1.0-rc2. But today I performed a fresh check out and saw svn failing with 
the following message :

svn: Unsupported special file type 'MODE'

This occured while processing a directory containing one symlink. I should add 
that the target file was not yet checked out by svn. I performed this action 
through svnserve with a svn:// URL. I tried a "svnserve verify" on the 
repository but saw no alerts. I've switched back to 1.1.0-rc1 but the error 
was still there. I guess the repository has a been altered in such a way that 
the server cannot manage the versioned symlinks anymore.

SVN gurus, what is wrong there ?

Guillaume

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Re: Unsupported special file type

[Joshua Pieper <jp...@ece.cmu.edu>]

Can you post a reproduction recipe for this?  The error you give shouldn't
be possible except if you manually add the "svn:special" property to a
file or modify the repository version of the file using a non-symlink
supporting svn.

For a workaround to fix your repository in the meantime, just use 'svn rm'
on the URL of the path.

-Josh

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Guillaume wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was using svn 1.1.0-rc1 to play with symlinks et upgraded recently to
> 1.1.0-rc2. But today I performed a fresh check out and saw svn failing with
> the following message :
>
> svn: Unsupported special file type 'MODE'
>
> This occured while processing a directory containing one symlink. I should add
> that the target file was not yet checked out by svn. I performed this action
> through svnserve with a svn:// URL. I tried a "svnserve verify" on the
> repository but saw no alerts. I've switched back to 1.1.0-rc1 but the error
> was still there. I guess the repository has a been altered in such a way that
> the server cannot manage the versioned symlinks anymore.
>
> SVN gurus, what is wrong there ?
>
> Guillaume
>
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