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I recently had a problem when working with SVN on an old website. I was taking the rather dated site off a Windows server and placing it onto a Linux machine. This was great although the site was littered with case insensitivities, one example was a spacer.gif which was called SPACER.gif in the filesystem, meaning any links were broken. My first throught was that the spacer.gif was missing, so I quickly got another off the web and uploaded it to fix the problem. However there was already a SPACER.gif on the server, which caused no problems as the linux server saw them both as diffrently named files. The problem occoured when I checked the site out onto my local Mac when spacer.gif and SPACER.gif were seen as the same file and SVN errored and wouldn't let me check it out, clean up or anything. Luckily I noticed the problem and removed them from the Linux server and on re-checking out everything was fine. SVN can be quite scary with its errors, and hopefully this may help someone else that thinks they have screwed their reposiry.

svn: In directory 'sitename.com/www/assets'

svn: Can't move source to dest

svn: Can't move 'sitename.com/www/assets/.svn/tmp/prop-base/SPACER.gif.svn-base' to 'sitename.com/www/assets/.svn/prop-base/SPACER.gif.svn-base': No such file or directory