Re: updating rmcl via svn

MacBook Pro, 10.5.7

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Andrew Shalit <[email protected]> wrote:
> Toomas, Henry --
>
> it would be helpful to know what operating system you're running.
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Henry Lieberman wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>>
>> I renamed my old RMCL directory before starting the svn, but I still
>> got the post-checkout errors described.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Gary Byers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Until about a week ago, the mechanism that the "post-checkout.sh" and
>>> "pre-commit.sh" scripts used to join/split resource forks was based
>>> on some obscurely-named Apple utilities; the utility that joined forks
>>> together just recursively walks a directory, looking to join ._foo and
>>> foo into a single file with a resource fork and HFS metainfo.
>>>
>>> That utility descended into .svn directories and got confused by
>>> what it found there; it printed a bunch of confusing messages, but
>>> didn't seem to actually modify the files in **/.svn.
>>>
>>> While working on RMCL under Snow Leopard, I noticed that svn started
>>> claiming that I'd changed some of the files that have resource forks
>>> when I hadn't; apparently, the Snow Leopard version of that utility's
>>> been improved to clobber things in .svn directories.
>>>
>>> I changed the scheme used to maintain resource forks in SVN to avoid
>>> this problem; unfortunately, I missed the fact that the old scheme
>>> uses "extended (file) attributes" in a way that the new scheme doesn't
>>> deal with correctly.  If your working directory was initially checked
>>> out before this change and then updated, you'll get the kind of
>>> diagnostic messages that you described.
>>>
>>> If you do a fresh checkout (so that the old extended attributes aren't
>>> involved), things seem to work correctly.  If you have a working
>>> directory
>>> that contains the old-style attributes, then it seems to work to remove
>>> them before invoking the post-checkout.sh script:
>>>
>>> $ xattr -r -d com.apple.ResourceFork *
>>>
>>> (And watch in mild horror as another Apple utility wanders around .svn
>>> directories and complains about what it finds there.)
>>>
>>> This change in the scheme used to maintain resource forks was made to
>>> both the trunk ("5.1b1") and 5.2 versions and may affect anyone who had
>>> a working copy of either version.
>>>
>>>
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