Using an SVN working directory on a Samba share from a Mac? With Subclipse or similar? You may have seen the following message as it bombs during checkout:
svn: cannot rename file 'entries'
I did and Google says others have for the last three years at least.
Examining the files in the .svn directories, I find that the root 'entries' file is created with permissions of -r--r--r--, so naturally a file can't be renamed over it as that requires write permissions.
After a bit of hacking I came up with the following solution, which may or may not be suitable for others. Use with care.
Create a share in Samba specifically for your working directories if you haven't already.
Add these lines to the share definition:
force create mode = 0640
force security mode = 0640
or, if you want world readability (I don't, hence 640..):
force create mode = 0644
force security mode = 0644
Now everything you write to that share will be forced as writable (at least -rw-r-----) by your user account. This fixes the SVN bug.
I say 'SVN bug', but it could be Subclipse, the Java SVN library, Samba,... I don't know.
