Working Copy Weirdness/Bug

[Jeffrey Melloy <jm...@visualdistortion.org>]

A week or so ago, I noticed my status output had a couple "S" columns, 
on files that had spaces in the names.  I hadn't touched them in a 
while, and hadn't done anything with them.  I was busy at the time, so 
chalked it up to random weirdness and told myself I'd deal with it 
later.
S /hw/digital/hw/assign-a/Behavioral Design.vhd
...
etc.

Soon after, when attempting to do "svn st -u" at the root directory of 
my repository, it started timing out when contacting the server.  "svn 
up" also timed out, but I could still do an update on my repository 
from a different machine, and my machine could still get updates from 
different repositories I had checked out.  The server version is not 
the most current, version .14.2, compiled september 7, and is probably 
HEAD as of that time.  The version on my machine is the most recent 
tarball.

The error the server reported was as follows:
Could not fetch resou rce information. [404, #0] could not determine r 
esource kind [404, #160013] (17)File exists: file not found: revision 
`139', path `/hw/digital/hw/assign-a/Behavioral' [404, #160013]
Could not fetch resource information. [404, #0] could not determine 
resource kind [404, #160013] (17)File exists: file not found: revision 
`139', path `/hw/digital/hw/assign-a/Behavioral' [404, #160013]

After playing with this a little bit, and reading the error messages, I 
set about renaming all files with spaces in them.  The Known Bug in 
which a post-commit script fails flared up (first time I'd ever seen it 
with this repository, by the way), and reported a failed commit.  
However, the version on the repository seemed to be the correct one, so 
I backed up a level, erased that directory of my working copy, and 
checked out a new one.  (I was tired of messing with it at this point.)

Not sure if this rates a bug, or a weird story.  Certainly couldn't 
give a recipe to reproduce it, since files with spaces in the names 
worked fine before, and don't now.

Jeffrey Melloy


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