1.7 'svn upgrade' issue on windows vista
While testing out the svn upgrade feature in 1.7 beta 2, on some working copies the upgrade failed with an error E155036. The problem was that the svn upgrade command is case sensitive on the WC folder name and failed if the name doesn't match exactly. Windows itself is case insensitive and none of the other svn commands are case sensitive to the WC folder name. The following test case shows the steps to reproduce the problem using a public server: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\>cd svn1617 C:\svn1617>svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/wc-ng/ C:\TestWC AC:\TestWC\single-db-per-wc AC:\TestWC\revert-in-subtree.svg AC:\TestWC\use-of-tmp-text-base-path AC:\TestWC\modularization AC:\TestWC\conflict-storage AC:\TestWC\externals AC:\TestWC\locking AC:\TestWC\pristine-store AC:\TestWC\copying AC:\TestWC\nodes AC:\TestWC\design AC:\TestWC\conflict-ui AC:\TestWC\node-data AC:\TestWC\transitions Checked out revision 1154040. C:\svn1617>cd \svn17beta C:\svn17beta>svn upgrade c:\testwc svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command svn: E155036: Working copy 'C:\testwc' is too old (format 10, created by Subvers ion 1.6) C:\svn17beta>svn upgrade c:\TestWC Upgraded 'C:\TestWC' C:\svn17beta>svn --version svn, version 1.7.0-beta2 (Beta 2) compiled Jul 22 2011, 12:44:23 Copyright (C) 2011 The Apache Software Foundation. This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE file for more information. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/ The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. - handles 'svn' scheme * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. - handles 'file' scheme * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme C:\svn17beta>
Re: 1.7 'svn upgrade' issue on windows vista
>> The problem was that the svn upgrade command is case sensitive on the WC >> folder name and failed if the >> name doesn't match exactly. Windows itself is case insensitive and none of >> the other svn commands are >> case sensitive to the WC folder name. > >That is correct. The Subversion client, and a Subversion repository, are >always case-sensitive, >regardless of whether your local filesystem is case-sensitive or not. I don't >believe this is considered >a bug. So be careful to specify things with the >correct case. 2 points: 1. I'm aware the repository itself is case sensitive, but all the other svn commands are case insensitive for the WC name, so "svn upgrade" isn't working consistently with them 2. the reported error is misleading and meant spending several hours investigating why the working copy couldn't be upgraded. (Which is the reason for testing with beta releases) If it's not a bug, then a an more appropriate error message would be an improvement.
Re: 1.7 'svn upgrade' issue on windows vista
thanks Bert, I'll continue with some more testing, with a much faster svn update on large working copies this release looks like a very worthwhile upgrade. - Original Message - From: "Bert Huijben" To: "Stephen Meechan" , users@subversion.apache.org Sent: Friday, 5 August, 2011 12:32:41 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: RE: 1.7 'svn upgrade' issue on windows vista > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Meechan [mailto:s...@smeechan.co.uk] > Sent: vrijdag 5 augustus 2011 1:04 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: 1.7 'svn upgrade' issue on windows vista > > While testing out the svn upgrade feature in 1.7 beta 2, on some working > copies the upgrade failed with an error E155036. > > The problem was that the svn upgrade command is case sensitive on the WC > folder name and failed if the name doesn't match exactly. Windows itself is > case insensitive and none of the other svn commands are case sensitive to > the WC folder name. > > The following test case shows the steps to reproduce the problem using a > public server: Thanks for reporting (and the nice reproduction recipe). I just fixed the issue in r1154165. (This patch won't make beta 3, but I'll nominate it for backport for 1.7.0) Bert
