[SVN-3996] Unable to use working directory on filesystem without ownership permissions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: trunk
• Fix Version/s: 1.10-consider
• Component/s: libsvn_subr

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 25/Aug/11 22:20
• Updated: 19/Feb/15 14:53

Description

As discussed on the dev mailing list
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/130898>
(sorry, doesn't appear yet on Apache archive):

I am unable to work with (checkout/update) a working copy on an NTFS
filesystem mounted using NTFS-3G unless it is mounted with uid=me,
even when full read/write permissions (fmask=111,dmask=000) are
granted.  The results are as follows:

$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk testdir
svn: E000001: Can't set permissions on '<path>/testdir/.svn/tmp/svn-HZAmRw':
Operation not permitted

I first encountered this behavior with the version in Debian testing
(1.6.17dfsg-1) and I have just confirmed the same behavior is present
in trunk (as of 2011-09-22).

It would be preferable if subversion could detect when file ownership is not
being preserved in the working directory and either make the error non-fatal or
avoid printing an error message in such situations (since presumably the user is
aware).

Original issue reported by kevinoid