Re: freebsd svn repo busted or bad usage?

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>> $ svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head
>>> # ...
>>> svn: Your .svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt; run 'svn cleanup'
>>> and tr
>>> y again
>>> svn: Can't open file
>>> 'head/usr.bin/window/.svn/tmp/text-base/:ww.svn-base': No s
>>> uch file or directory
>>> gcooper_at_ob2 /cygdrive/e/freebsd/head
>>> $ svn cleanup
>>>
>>> gcooper_at_ob2 /cygdrive/e/freebsd/head
>>> $ svn up
>>> svn: Your .svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt; run 'svn cleanup'
>>> and tr
>>> y again
>>> svn: Can't open file 'usr.bin/window/.svn/tmp/text-base/:ww.svn-base': No
>>> such f
>>> ile or directory
>>
>> Some non-specific things:
>>
>> - are you sure it isn't a Windows problem? Is your svn working for other
>> repositories?
>> - are you using svn 1.5?
>
> 1. Don't think it's a problem with cygwin, but I could be wrong.
> Haven't tried with other repos yet...
> 2. Nope. Cygwin packages svn 1.4.6.
>
> -Garrett

Either it's the version of svn or the Cygwin / Vista environment I
have setup, but I just spent the time to reconfigure my FreeBSD
RELENG_7 VMware fusion VM and things appear to be working swimmingly
now.

Maybe write a note up somewhere about this caveat?

Cheers,
-Garrett