Subversion: Can’t Move Source to Dest
That is the error I received while checkout source code today; the fix is very simple, sorta. This error happens for Mac and Windows users where the lack of case sensitivity is not taken into account. In Windows ‘test’ is the same as ‘Test’ so if you have files named that way it will conflict. When you get this error it will tell you what file it could not move so you need to find that file using a repo browser and see what file is conflicting with it. You may need to save each file individually (right click on it, Save As, if using TortoiseSVN) and compare the two to see which you need to keep. Once you have determined which one can be removed, right click on it in the repo browser and select Delete. Don’t worry, if needed you can always recover the file later, I mean shit, isn’t that why we use it in the first place? You should now be able to check out the repository.
Your other choice is to check it out on a linux machine and remove the files you do not want or only use the files on the Linux machine. I am unfortunately on dialup and this code was about 60mb, which is about 4 hours of time. I was on a 10mbit connection when I had the error occur and only had Backtrack with me and had a real hard time trying to get subversion running without development tools I needed. Sounds to me like I need to finally setup Slackware on the lappy.
