Subversion and Failed to add file
October 9th, 2006
I recently took over maintainence of a project that had been hosted on a subversion repo on a linux machine. (I’m on OS X). I asked the kind developer to give me an svn dump of his repo so that I could continue where he left off.
All went well, as I loaded the repo to my subversion host, which is also linux, but when I tried to check the project out to my development machine - the afformentioned OS X - I kept getting this error:
svn: Failed to add file ‘Foo.rb’: object of the same name already exists).
I couldn’t figure it out, but with a little bit of prompting on #svn I realized that the error is because OS X has a case insensitive file system, and there was both a foo.rb and a Foo.rb file in the problematic directory. The fix? svn mv https://my.repo.example/Foo.rb https://my.repo.example/foo_fix.rb
What a pain, but at least its fixed.
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