> -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:02 PM > To: Bill Williams > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Subversion and the uchg flag on Mac OS X > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 01:43:41PM -0400, Bill Williams wrote: > > If this belongs in the develop group, let me know. > > > > > > > > We have recently switched over to a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server using SMB > so our > > windows computers can access the files on the server. To our dismay, > we > > have discovered that Mac OS X is turning on a flag called "uchg" > whenever a > > file is made read only which is what occurs with the entries file in > the > > .svn directory. This flag make the file unchangeable (immutable is > what > > they call it). Anyway, after that happens, any time subversion tries > to > > move tmp/entries to entries, it fails. > > > > > > > > Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has dealt with this and perhaps > could a > > change be requested to perhaps change the mode on the file back to > writable > > before the move is attempted? > > > > > > > > Thank you > > This is already known. > See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3053 > > The hope is that the new working copy meta data store in 1.7.x will fix > this. > > If you have the time you could help verifying if this problem has > indeed been > fixed by compiling Subversion's trunk code on Mac OS X and checking out > a > working copy with the resulting binary. Or wait until pre-release > binaries for Mac OS X are available for testing and check back then. > Thanks!
Actually, I'm thinking the problem will raise it's head when I use Subversion on my windows machine since that is what will manipulate the workspace and that's where I'm currently have the problem. Would this be correct?
