Re: svn checkout crush on mapped samba share from windows client

[Evert Lammerts <ev...@gmail.com>]

I need a solution for this desperately!

My configuration is similar to Alexxoid's, with the difference that I'm 
working from a Linux machine. I have a mounted a Samba share on which my 
workspace is located.

A little sidestep the prevent unnecessary discussion - the codebase I'm 
working on is proprietary, and I am not allowed to have a local working 
copy on my laptop, on which I'm working, so a local copy is not an option.

The problem seems to be about permissions. When I checkout my branch to 
my workspace, it creates the .svn folder and its files with the right 
permissions (and owner), but after that i get a very consistent:

checkout -r HEAD http://office/svn/PROJECT/branches/MYBRANCH
    svn: Cannot rename file '/mnt/SAMBA_SHARE/..../PROJECT/.svn/tmp/entries'

I've tried using an SSH mount instead, which also caused problems (of a 
different type).

Any ideas on what to do??

Thanks, Evert

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Re: svn checkout crush on mapped samba share from windows client

[Evert Lammerts <ev...@gmail.com>]

John Peacock wrote:
> Evert Lammerts wrote:
>> The problem seems to be about permissions. When I checkout my branch 
>> to my workspace, it creates the .svn folder and its files with the 
>> right permissions (and owner), but after that i get a very consistent:
>
> This isn't a Subversion problem; it is a Samba problem. 

You're right, I found that out too (see below).

> Of course, you could also use an X-Windows client (cygwin?) to 
> remotely connect to the server and do all of the file manipulations 
> "locally to the server", but you'd have to leave your Windows editor 
> behind.  At that point, you might as well reformat your laptop and 
> switch to Linux... ;-)

I'm running Ubuntu and have the samba share mounted with smbmount - this 
must be causing the problem: I'm not able to overwrite .svn/entries with 
.svn/tmp/entries by hand either. So in the meanwhile I tried the 
opposite of your advise and mounted the share from Windows... Guess 
what, svn worked without any problems.

Damn it.

I want to do my development from Ubuntu, but this permissions thing is 
messing me up. I've tried half a day but just can't see the light.

Anyway, thanks a bunch for trying to help. I'm going to stroll along a 
couple more mailing lists for a little while to try and solve this 
before the weekend.

Evert

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Re: svn checkout crush on mapped samba share from windows client

[John Peacock <jo...@havurah-software.org>]

Evert Lammerts wrote:
> The problem seems to be about permissions. When I checkout my branch to 
> my workspace, it creates the .svn folder and its files with the right 
> permissions (and owner), but after that i get a very consistent:

This isn't a Subversion problem; it is a Samba problem.  The strong 
recommendation has always been to stay away from network-mounted working 
copies, precisely because there are frequent problems due to the 
underlying filesystem that aren't within Subversion's control.  You may 
have better luck with NFS (for no other reason than it has been around a 
lot longer and the various implementations have dealt with these 
problems longer).

Here's a possible workaround, since you apparently have SSH access to 
the server.  SSH to the server and check out the files into the same 
filesystem that is exported using Samba (i.e. a local to the server 
checkout).  Edit the files from your Windows laptop over the Samba link, 
but use ssh to the server to perform any commits/updates.  Depending on 
your creativity, you could even write a series of wrapper scripts that 
use ssh to perform all of the repository manipulation from the comfort 
of your Windows laptop.

Of course, you could also use an X-Windows client (cygwin?) to remotely 
connect to the server and do all of the file manipulations "locally to 
the server", but you'd have to leave your Windows editor behind.  At 
that point, you might as well reformat your laptop and switch to 
Linux... ;-)

HTH

John

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