can't checkout svn on cygwin

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Jul 16 03:12:18 UTC 2010


In the last episode (Jul 15), Philip M. Gollucci said:
> On 7/15/2010 8:35 PM, jhell wrote:
> > How far up the tree did you go back ?
> The whole way, and I've re-checked out the whole tree again.
> 
> > As more information. I can checkout that part of the tree and the entire
> > contents for each one of the directories and there was no problem.
> Are you doing this on a cygwin install on vista ?
> It works fine on *Unix
> 
> > have you run svn cleanup ?
> of course
> 
> Lets pretend I'm one of the admins of svn.apache.org -- I know how to
> use svn.

Until the offending files get fixed, you can try enabling NTFS case
sensitivity on your Windows system:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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