What should I do when 'svn cleanup' fails?

Question

I have a lot of changes in a working folder, and something screwed up trying to do an update.

Now when I issue an \'svn cleanup\' I get:

>svn clea         


        

Answer 1

It's possible that you have a problem with two filenames differing only by uppercase. If you ran into this problem, creating another working copy directory does not solve the problem.

Current Windows (i.e. crappy) filesystems simply do not grok the difference between Filename and FILEname. You have two possible fixes:

1. Check out at platform with a real filesystem (Unix-based), rename the file, and commit changes.
2. When you are stocked to Windows you can rename files in the Eclipse SVN repository browser which does recognise the difference and rename the file there.
3. You can rename the problematic files also remotely from any command-line SVN client using svn rename -m "broken filename case" http://server/repo/FILEname http://server/repo/filename