svn changes my files names

Question

I'm using command line SVN 1.6.5 on my Ubuntu 9.10. This is my first time using it on the latest Ubuntu, I found svn confused about file names. The problem was as follow:

I firstly used

sudo svn co http://my-repository/h2m h2m

after successfully checkout these files, I immediately used

svn st and found

dean@notebook:~/FAT32/h2m$ svn st
?       license                  
?       readme                   
?       cnt/readme               
!       cnt/README               
?       doc/changes              
!       doc/CHANGES              
?       data/readme              
!       data/README              
?       octave/readme            
!       octave/README            
!       LICENSE                  
!       README

Looks like

I find checked my \h2m\data\ folder and find there is a file called README.

I also checked my server repository:

dean@notebook:~/FAT32/h2m/data$ svn list http://my-repository/h2m/data
README
digits.m
digits.mat
digits.sig

This is strange,I'm looking forward to hearing from your.

BTW: I'm using dualboot, I found the files are working perfectly on my Windows 7 which was using Tortoise SVN.

Thanks again.

Answer 1

The first thing that looks wrong is that you've checked out as root (sudo) and then used normal user account.

Another thing is filesystem case sensitivity. I would expect weirdness like that when working with fat32 partition. Maybe checking mount options will help.