Proper method to checkout stable?

[Justin Hibbits]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:36:48 -0800
Rob Ballantyne <robballantyne3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>   I'm doing a 'svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 src' on
> another machine (OS X, because I can't get subversion installed
> locally) and it's producing an error:
> ...
> A    src/share/man/man9/vget.9
> svn: In directory 'src/share/man/man9'
> svn: Can't open file
> 'src/share/man/man9/.svn/tmp/text-base/VFS_MOUNT.9.svn-base': No such
> file or directory
> 
>   Is check-out somehow dependent on being written to the correct
> location on a FreeBSD machine?
> 
>   Thanks,
> Rob

That error is usually caused by checking out on a case-insensitive
filesystem.  Check out into a case-sensitive disk image and you should
be fine.

- Justin