Re: Subversion dies on pkill checkout

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:42:30 -0700
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Chris Ruiz <chris_at_young-alumni.com> wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote:
>
>>> * Michael David Crawford <mdc_at_prgmr.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A    tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/pkill-t.t
>>>> svn: In directory 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill'
>>>> svn: Can't move source to dest
>>>> svn: Can't move
>>>>  'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/tmp/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base'  to
>>>> 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base':  No such
>>>> file or directory
>>
>> Ed Schouten wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess this is yet another issue we're having with checking out our
>>> source tree on case insensitive file systems.
>>
>> That was it!  I should have guessed - it's bitten me before. [*]
>>
>> The workaround - again this is on Mac OS X - is to use Disk Utility to
>> create a big enough disk image file, then after it has been initialized,
>> reformat it with a case-sensitive filesystem.
>>
>> One has the choice of the Unix Filesystem or case-sensitive HFS+.  HFS+ is
>> case-insensitive by default; I think the case-sensitive option is only
>> available in recent OS X versions.
>
> Actually, Case-sensitive HFS+ has been available since 10.3 (Panther), to
> get such a volume you would need to select it from Disk Utility during the
> install process.  There is no conversion process other than reformatting.  I
> currently run 10.5 (and did so with 10.4 and 10.3) as Case-sensitive
> Journaled HFS+ with no problems.

I second this fact. The only unfortunate thing is that the majority of
the time you need to reformat / repartition your disk, and optionally
reinstall OSX if it wasn't the target disk.
HTH,
-Garrett
Received on Wed Mar 11 2009 - 04:42:31 UTC

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