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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:42:30 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Ruiz <chris@young-alumni.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Subversion dies on pkill checkout
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d0903102242g1cc5b56cp31eb134f0a88821@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8A50A395-9004-4AAF-94E7-460A5020474A@young-alumni.com>
References:  <49B6248F.9040708@prgmr.com> <20090310085736.GB19161@hoeg.nl> <49B63AEC.2070305@prgmr.com> <8A50A395-9004-4AAF-94E7-460A5020474A@young-alumni.com>

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Chris Ruiz <chris@young-alumni.com> wrote=
:
> On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote:
>
>>> * Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A =A0 =A0tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/pkill-t.t
>>>> svn: In directory 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill'
>>>> svn: Can't move source to dest
>>>> svn: Can't move
>>>> =A0'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/tmp/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-ba=
se' =A0to
>>>> 'tools/regression/usr.bin/pkill/.svn/prop-base/pgrep-s.t.svn-base': =
=A0No such
>>>> file or directory
>>
>> Ed Schouten wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess this is yet another issue we're having with checking out our
>>> source tree on case insensitive file systems.
>>
>> That was it! =A0I should have guessed - it's bitten me before. [*]
>>
>> The workaround - again this is on Mac OS X - is to use Disk Utility to
>> create a big enough disk image file, then after it has been initialized,
>> reformat it with a case-sensitive filesystem.
>>
>> One has the choice of the Unix Filesystem or case-sensitive HFS+. =A0HFS=
+ is
>> case-insensitive by default; I think the case-sensitive option is only
>> available in recent OS X versions.
>
> Actually, Case-sensitive HFS+ has been available since 10.3 (Panther), to
> get such a volume you would need to select it from Disk Utility during th=
e
> install process. =A0There is no conversion process other than reformattin=
g. =A0I
> currently run 10.5 (and did so with 10.4 and 10.3) as Case-sensitive
> Journaled HFS+ with no problems.

I second this fact. The only unfortunate thing is that the majority of
the time you need to reformat / repartition your disk, and optionally
reinstall OSX if it wasn't the target disk.
HTH,
-Garrett



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