svn: Can't open file 'C:/Projects/ozclim/source/.svn/tmp/text-base/reefclim.dof.svn-base': The system cannot find the file specified.

[Ji...@csiro.au]

Gentlefolk,

We ran into a problem which first showed itself as follows.

I have set up a new build box, and attempted to checkout a full project
to it.

 

Error 

svn: In directory 'C:/Projects/ozclim/source'
svn: Can't open file
'C:/Projects/ozclim/source/.svn/tmp/text-base/reefclim.dof.svn-base':
The system cannot find the file specified.

 

The original repository was created as CVS and migrated to BerkleyDB
under Subversion 1.1.3, using cvs2svn(I think) and accessed using
Apache.

Last August the file mentioned and two others were added according to
the logs.

However they were present in the initial CVS repository, and in a backup
of the SVN repository from March this year.

Issuing the command svn delete for each of the files in turn as they are
reported on successive checkouts seems to leave the repository in a
consistent state and with all three files intact.

Thus I conclude that the problem appears that there were duplicate
entries for these three files after this commit. 

 

Re: svn: Can't open file 'C:/Projects/ozclim/source/.svn/tmp/text-base/reefclim.dof.svn-base': The system cannot find the file specified.

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 08:41, Jim Ricketts wrote:

> svn: In directory 'C:/Projects/ozclim/source'
> svn: Can't open file
> 'C:/Projects/ozclim/source/.svn/tmp/text-base/reefclim.dof.svn-base':
> The system cannot find the file specified.
>

[snip]

> UU  trunk/delphi/projects/ozclim/source/OSG_Gui_ReefClim.dfm
> A   trunk/delphi/projects/ozclim/source/ReefClim.dof
> A   trunk/delphi/projects/ozclim/source/ReefClim.dpr
> A   trunk/delphi/projects/ozclim/source/ReefClim.res
> U   trunk/delphi/projects/ozclim/source/Sys.pas
> UU  trunk/delphi/projects/ozclim/source/coralbleachSingle.dfm
>

Looks like you have two versions of the file in the same repository  
directory whose names differ only in case (reefclim.dof and  
ReefClim.dof). To confirm that this is so, list the contents of the  
directory in the repository with "svn ls url://to/repo/directory"

Windows' native case-insensitive filesystem cannot handle this  
situation. You should determine which of the two files you want to  
keep, then "svn rm" the one you don't need anymore. You can do it  
directly in the repository without having a working copy with "svn rm  
url://to/repo/directory/file"

New checkouts should then work. To fix existing working copies, read  
this:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#case-change

To prevent the situation from happening again, install a pre-commit  
hook that prevents additions of files whose names differ only in case  
from a file that's already there. The Subversion source distribution  
includes such a script in the contrib directory called check-case- 
insensitive. Subversion 1.2.3 includes a PERL version, though a  
Python version exists in Subversion's trunk, and this version is  
supposed to be much better, so you may want to get that instead.



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