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svn commit fails upon trying to access nonexistent directory /home/.svn

svn commit failed form me with the following error:

user@host> svn commit
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Can't open file '/home/.svn/entries': Input/output error

Now, the first problem here is that svn should look for /home/user/.svn and I don't know why it bothers with looking for the nonexistent /home/.svn

The input/output error is not related to svn

user@host> ls /home/.svn
ls: /home/.svn: Input/output error

it is just a consequence of the NFS mounting system. Unfortunately I have little control on how that's set up.

Anyway the question: How do I explicitely tell svn where to look for the .svn file? If that's not possible, how do I work around this?

svn version: 1.6.5

Solution

  • Well, I found how to solve this (even though this is not a nice solution).

    I just wiped out the entire tree of my project, including /home/user/.svn

    Then re-checkout the whole project.

    That fixed the issue.