I got the same error yesterday.  Note that I don't have write access,
so it's true that I do have a read-only checkout, but before, there
was no warning just to create, upload or try.  Now I have to use
--force in order to do any of those operations.

- Dominic

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Dirk Pranke <dpra...@google.com> wrote:
> I started getting this on my mac at home, and haven't taken the time
> to track it down yet. Is it possible your environment got switched
> from the svn:// checkout to an https:// read-only checkout?
>
> -- Dirk
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jens Alfke <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> A few days ago I started getting an error when using gcl to create
>> changelists in my WebKit tree:
>>
>> $ pwd
>> /Volumes/Yttrium/src/third_party/WebKit
>> $ gcl change foo
>> This is a read-only checkout.  Retry in a read-write checkout or use --
>> force to override.
>>
>> I don't get the error if I use gcl in the top-level Chromium directory.
>>
>> I recently upgraded my Mac's svn from the stock 1.4.4 to 1.6.6; but
>> this doesn't explain why gcl would work in one repo but not in another.
>>
>> Any idea? AFAIK I need to use gcl to be able to submit WebKit patches
>> to the try bots...
>>
>> —Jens
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