Renaming issue, changing case only.

[David Rothenberger]

On 3/3/2009 7:48 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 3/3/2009 12:27 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>> $ svn mv CustomerInventoryAction.java CustomerinventoryAction.java
>> svn: Path 'CustomerinventoryAction.java' is not a directory
>>
>> $ svn mv src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp/customerInventory.jsp
>> src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp/customerinventory-input.jsp
>> $ svn mv src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp/inventoryResults.jsp
>> src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp/customerinventory.jsp
>> $ svn ci Transmitting file data ..svn: Commit succeeded, but other 
>> errors follow:
>> svn: Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
>> svn: In directory 'XXXXXX/src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp'
>> svn: Error processing command 'committed' in
>> 'XXXXXXXXXX/src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp'
>> svn: Error getting 'affected time' for
>> 'XXXXXXXXXX/src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp/.svn/text-base/customerinventory.jsp.svn- 
>>
>> base'
>> svn: Can't stat
>> 'XXXXXXXX/src/httpd/html/WEB-INF/jsp/.svn/text-base/customerinventory.jsp.svn-ba 
>>
>> se': No such file or directory
>> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
>> svn:    'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/svn-commit.tmp'
>>
>>
>> But mv is okay.
>>
>> $ touch XyzzY.txt
>> $ mv XyzzY.txt Xyzzy.txt
>> $
> 
> coreutils has some magic to make this work that is lacking in subversion 
> or libapr1 or libaprutils1. Does this work with Cygwin 1.7?

Doesn't work with Cygwin 1.7, either.

The work-around is to do a commit between moves:
% svn mv file File.tmp
% svn commit -m ''
% svn mv File.tmp file
% svn commit -m ''

-- 
David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org

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         The ancient Italian art of pizza folding.


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