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Obscure SVN checkout error

Published Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:25 PM

This might help someone out of a tight spot some day...

At my current company we have our SVN repository on a linux box but we develop on Windows machines. This afternoon I checked in a new file (ReadMe.txt) and then afterwards I updated my local respository* and got this error:

Error: Can't copy 'C:\[path]\.svn\tmp\text-base\ReadMe.txt.svn-base' to 'C:\[path]\ReadMe.txt.tmp': The system cannot find the file specified.

It turns out that someone else had already kindly added a Readme.txt to the repository whilst I was out on lunch, but because our repository is case sensitive it okay'ed my checkin and only ran into trouble when I tried to pull the source out again to a non-case sensitive system.

Solution was to delete one of the files from the linux box, now everything is happiness again.

 

* I know I probably should have done it the other way around, but I thought I was the only one working on the project

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# Jamie said on Monday, December 18, 2006 8:02 PM

Thanks - it did indeed help me out!

# Wes said on Friday, January 12, 2007 4:54 PM

Thanks - this helped me track down a horrible problem we were having :)

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