On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:26:05AM +0200, Gunter Königsmann wrote: > Dear all, > > Not a bug in svn - but a thing svn could probably detect: > > I've had reports from 2 users (and 3 cases on my own computer) that > windows for some reason didn't let subversion create a .svn/tmp folder. > Windows explorer was unable to create it, too, while cygwin's mkdir was > able to do so. Clearly a windows problem. Anyways: > > The result was that svn 1.9.4 started complaining about the checksum of > all new files is wrong meaning that the working copy is broken. A svn > cleanup tells at least that the tmp folder cannot be created. But > afterwards it is kind of hard to recover from the problem: After > renaming the file in the repo makes it work again. But if it is renamed > back to its original name its checksum is broken again. Deleting the > file in the repo and re-adding it works, but might not be the Right > Thing to do. > > => For other projects I would have filed a bug report that somewhere a > check if the .svn/tmp directory exists/can be created is missing. > Rationale: The fact that the directory creation fails clearly isn't > svn's fault. But a little bit of extra paranoia after something that is > physically impossible has happened once doesn't hurt. > > For svn I have read it is wise to ask this list instead - which I do > using this mail. > > Kind regards, > > Gunter.
Hi Gunter, I agree that this is a case of svn not providing a good error message. Which is a known and log-standing problem in general, see https://www.elegosoft.com/files/Downloads/Subversion_Day_2011/svn-day-berlin-2011_sperling_subversion-error-messages-demystified.pdf For reference, could you post the error message you saw? That would help with figuring out where we'd need to fix this. Thanks, Stefan
