[plt-dev] svn annoyances

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 9 20:52:26 EST 2009

And the 'eli' user does not have permissions to /usr, right?

Robby

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Feb  9, Sam TH wrote:
>> Here's a reproduction recipe:
>>
>> check out a copy of your usr dir into my-usr.
>> /> cd my-usr/
>> my-usr> touch foo
>> my-usr> svn add foo
>> my-usr> svn ci foo -m "."
>> my-usr> svn mv foo bar
>> my-usr> svn ci foo bar -m "."
>>
>> then go to a different, pre-existing checkout of your usr dir, perhaps
>> called orig-usr
>>
>> orig-usr> svn up
>>
>> get the error:
>>
>> svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response
>> to OPTIONS request for 'http://svn.plt-scheme.org/usr'
>
> I don't get this error (and I did try some games like this
> previously).  Here is how it went for me:
>
> | winooski:~ eli> cd
> | winooski:~ eli> mkdir x
> | winooski:~ eli> cd x
> | winooski:~/x eli> svn co http://svn.plt-scheme.org/usr/eli
> | A    eli/[...]
> | Checked out revision 20816.
> | winooski:~/x eli> svn co http://svn.plt-scheme.org/usr/eli orig-eli
> | A    orig-eli/[...]
> | Checked out revision 20816.
> | winooski:~/x eli> cd eli
> | winooski:~/x/eli eli> touch foo
> | winooski:~/x/eli eli> svn add foo
> | A         foo
> | winooski:~/x/eli eli> svn ci -m ''
> | Adding         foo
> | Transmitting file data .
> | Committed revision 20817.
> | winooski:~/x/eli eli> svn mv foo bar
> | A         bar
> | D         foo
> | winooski:~/x/eli eli> svn ci -m ''
> | Adding         bar
> | Deleting       foo
> | Committed revision 20818.
> | winooski:~/x/eli eli> cd ../orig-eli
> | winooski:~/x/orig-eli eli> svn up
> | A    bar
> | Updated to revision 20818.
>
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