Re: Using .Mac iDisk for subversion (svn) repository?

FROM : Ryan Poling
DATE : Mon Nov 05 18:53:36 2007

Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.  Thanks.

-Ryan

On Nov 5, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Stefan Werner wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:05:55 +0100, Ryan Poling <<email_removed>> 
> wrote:
>

>> Macintosh:trunk ryan$ svn commit -m "no comment"
>> Sending        trunk/test.txt
>> Transmitting file data .svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>> svn: Can't get exclusive lock on file '/Volumes/mydotmacusername/
>> Documents/svn/repository/db/transactions/238-1.txn/rev-lock': 
>> Operation not supported
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.  My best guess is that the new 
>> version of svn included with Leopard is smarter than the old one 
>> and realizes that there's a problem with using the iDisk.  I hope 
>> to be proved wrong!

>
> The error message say it all: svn is trying to lock a file, but 
> webdav doesn't support it. CVS on iDisk will work, it doesn't 
> require file system locks. Unless I'm unaware of an svn option that 
> would tell it to not use locks, I'd say the only way of getting it 
> to work would be patching and building your own svn executable.
>
> I'd love to be proven wrong, but I've tried the same about a year 
> ago and concluded that it doesn't work.
>
> -Stefan