Details
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Bug
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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all
Description
Subversion performs a case-senstive comparison of the repository path when determining if a file that is flagged as 'Copied' in the .svn/entries file comes from the repository that a commit is being made to. In a mixed svn command line and TortoiseSVN environment it's possible to get your working directory into a state where some files have got correctly-cased pathnames, eg: "C:", whereas the 'copy_url' tags in the status file have got names driven by what the user typed as the repository name on the SVN CHECKOUT parameter line. Quite often this will be lower case, eg "c:" When attempting to commit a working copy with such a mixed-case problem, an error is generated along the lines of "file xxx comes from a different repo". Once the working directory gets into this state either the merge must be undone and then redone, or the 'entries' file in each .svn folder must be edited to correct the case of the copied-from attributes of each copied file. Here is a batch file to duplicate the problem: svnadmin create C:\svnrep mkdir c:\svnimport mkdir c:\svnimport\trunk\project echo "This is a file" > c:\svnimport\trunk\project\afile.txt svn import c:\svnimport file:///C:/svnrep -m "Initial import" svn copy file:///C:/svnrep/trunk file:///C:/svnrep/branch -m "Branched" mkdir c:\svnbranch svn co file:///C:/svnrep/branch c:\svnbranch echo "This is a new file for the branch" > c:\svnbranch\project\bfile.txt svn add c:\svnbranch\project\bfile.txt svn commit C:\svnbranch -m "Added new file to branch" mkdir c:\svntrunk rem *** If the following line uses the URL file:///C:/svnrep/trunk then the commit will fail rem *** If it uses the URL file:///c:/svnrep/trunk then it will succeed. svn co file:///C:/svnrep/trunk c:\svntrunk svn merge -r 2:3 file:///c:/svnrep/branch c:\svntrunk svn commit c:\svntrunk -m "This commit will fail if the checkout used an uppercase 'C:'"
Original issue reported by stony
