svn checkout: "No such file or directory" on Mac OSX

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 14:05

On svn update/checkout, I was getting the following error:
svn: In directory 'goingon6/drupal/sites/all/modules/contrib/ctools/ctools_plugin_example/help'
svn: Can't open file 'goingon6/drupal/sites/all/modules/contrib/ctools/ctools_plugin_example/help/.svn/tmp/text-base/Chaos-Tools--Ctools--Plugin-Examples.html.svn-base': No such file or directory

I'm the sole Mac user in my dev team (everyone else is Fedora Core). Turns out that Linux (and most other OS's) have case-sensitive file systems, where Mac does not. What this means is that a subversion commit on a Linux client can submit 2 files named the same with different casing, but a mac client can't checkout/update because the two files will conflict for the same name. 2 workarounds: (1) make sure you svn committers user different names for files, (2) there's a way to reformat Mac OSX with a "case sensitivity" option?

11 Comments

thank you

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 10:58.

Another reason why mac os is inferior to the mighty linuxes, it does not cause aspirin pain break

os x also has case sensitive

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 07:41.

os x also has case sensitive options

Thank you

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 10:50.

In our case one of the developers on Linux had indadvertedly checked-in 2 versions of the same file name (different case). We created a cause-sensitive partition on Mac OSX, checkout out there, deleted one of the files and committed back. then we could checkout in the regular case-insensitive partition and on Windows.

Thank you!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 03:27.

Finally I solved this boring problem!! :) :) :)

Thank you man!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 00:10.

Spent at least 3 hours because of this problem.

Fantastic! Thanks!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 09:05.

Saved me a massive head-ake!

Thank you so much!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 05:00.

I had not idea what the cause was and found this entry really quickly by googling! =))

Helped me!

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 09:03.

Thanks! I ran into the same issue doing a svn co on a Windows machine.

Thanks

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 03/28/2010 - 05:08.

Thanks man,

This really helped me out!

That was it

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 17:44.

Thank you thank you thank you for posting this. I'd been trying to figure this out for ages.

The solution I went with was to use Disk Utility to create a sparse bundle disk image, formatted as Case-sensitive Journaled. Svn checkout to that disk image then worked fine, and I can mount it whenever I need to use it.

Thank you so much

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 03:30.

This is a great suggestion! Did the job for me!