I don't know if this is a Cygwin related problem or if I am just being stupid. Probably the latter, but maybe in that case some kind soul will take pity on me.
I added a new user "svn" and a new group "subversion-user", basically following http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00933.html with the addition of also doing mkgroup -l -g subversion-user >> /etc/group. I then created a subversion repository in the usual way, on an NDAS drive, and then changed the file permissions so that they are owned by user svn and can be modified by members of the group subversion-user. I could then add and commit files to my repository. So far so good. I also want to be able to work on another machine in a similar manner, so did the same things on that machine regarding user and group as I did on the first. My suspicion is that I shouldn't have, I should have done something else instead, because I see g...@mimosa ~ $ ls -l /svn/db total 14 -rw-r--r--+ 1 gary Kein 2 2010-01-22 09:34 current -r--r--r-- 1 svn subversion-user 22 2010-01-22 08:22 format -rw-r--r-- 1 svn subversion-user 5 2010-01-22 08:22 fs-type -rw-r--r-- 1 svn subversion-user 1920 2010-01-22 08:22 fsfs.conf (etc.) from the first machine... ...but see g...@sunflower ~ $ ls -l /svn/db total 14 -rw-r--r--+ 1 ???????? ???????? 2 2010-01-22 09:34 current -r--r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 22 2010-01-22 08:22 format -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 5 2010-01-22 08:22 fs-type -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 1920 2010-01-22 08:22 fsfs.conf (etc.) from the second. Furthermore, attempting to commit a file (directory, actually) from the second machine results in an error, like so - g...@sunflower ~/src/myproject $ svn ci src svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Can't open file '/svn/db/txn-current': No such file or directory but I don't know if that is related to this or some other problem. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
