can't checkout svn on cygwin

Jiawei Ye leafy7382 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 07:48:31 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>wrote:

> > 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
>
> I got bitten by the same thing a while ago and I was working on OS/X. So it
is indeed the case-sensitivity issue.

CW


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