Bug#570271: svn: Can't check path '/.svn/wc.db': Permission denied

2010-02-17 Thread Jon Daley
Package: subversion Version: 1.6.9dfsg-1 Severity: normal I keep most of my file system under svn, so I have .svn directories all over the place owned by root, chmod 700. Somewhere between 1.6.3 and 1.6.9, `svn checkout` started checking the root directory for the existence of an .svn directory

Bug#570271: svn: Can't check path '/.svn/wc.db': Permission denied

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Jon Daley] I keep most of my file system under svn, so I have .svn directories all over the place owned by root, chmod 700. Somewhere between 1.6.3 and 1.6.9, `svn checkout` started checking the root directory for the existence of an .svn directory and trying to look in it. Thanks, this

Bug#570271: svn: Can't check path '/.svn/wc.db': Permission denied

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Jon Daley] Somewhere between 1.6.3 and 1.6.9, `svn checkout` started checking the root directory for the existence of an .svn directory and trying to look in it. This turns out to be some forward compatibility code added recently in anticipation of Subversion 1.7. In svn 1.7, the current

Bug#570271: svn: Can't check path '/.svn/wc.db': Permission denied

2010-02-17 Thread Jon Daley
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Peter Samuelson wrote: This turns out to be some forward compatibility code added recently in anticipation of Subversion 1.7. In svn 1.7, the current plan is to have a single .svn directory at the root of your checkout, instead of one per subdirectory. So svn 1.6 looks up