I just did some more testing. I tried to recreate my colleagues problem by creating a working copy, doing a merge, then cancelling it. I was unable to reproduce the problem in any event. I used both my values for TEMP and I also used his (C:\Windows\Temp).
Thanks, BN 2012/4/6 Brian Neal <bgn...@gmail.com>: > Hello Thorsten, > >> C:\Windows\Temp is no default temporary directory for a user. Normally >> Subversion would use the user specific Temp directory, unless you >> configured your user to use Windows\Temp, which is not recommended at >> all. I would guess that your environment may be a little bit special >> and therefore you should describe it and maybe ran into permission >> problems in Windows\Temp. > > I believe you have hit on something. We use an embedded compiler tool > chain on Windows XP that is somewhat old, and it sometimes errors out > when it encounters spaces in path names. I don't think I have > encountered this problem, but my colleague and a few others have. > Therefore they have explicitly set the environment variable TEMP, and > in this particular case, my colleague has TEMP=C:\Windows\Temp. Taking > a poll around the office, others have set it to TEMP=C:\Temp. Mine is > still the default, which I believe is > TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\brian\LOCALS~1\Temp. > > So now we are left a bit puzzled as to why some of us have encountered > the "spaces in path" problem with the compiler and others have not. > But that isn't a concern for this list. :) But in any event, I will > advise my colleague to change the value of his TEMP variable if you > think C:\Windows\Temp can cause a permissions problem for Subversion. > > Just for completeness, to answer to your questions (which may not be > relevant now): > >> For example is the Working Copy user specific or system wide? > > I am not sure I know what you mean. It is a "normal" working copy > created interactively by an XP user using Tortoise. I didn't know you > could create "system wide" or "user specific" working copies. > >> Was the merging user really a normal user or "something" in a service >> context? > > Normal, interactive user sitting at a keyboard. :) > > Thank you! > > Regards, > BN
