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Asked: 2026-06-18T09:15:24+00:00

I have a working copy of a repository on a Windows web server. If

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I have a working copy of a repository on a Windows web server. If I update/commit the working copy using TortoiseSVN (1.7.6) or the command line (version 1.7.8) “svn update” on my Windows PC I have no problems.

However if I am on my Linux Subversion server (where the repository lives), accessing the working copy through a CIFS mount, without fail within 10 updates/commit the file .svn/wc.db will have become corrupted. Sometimes it is with the message

svn: E200030: sqlite: database disk image is malformed” and sometimes it is a message like “svn: E155010: Pristine text ‘d9a9a3ee5e6b4b0d35b​fef95601890afd80709’​ not present

I can clean up the corruption every time it occurs, but clearly I don’t want to keep having to do that – I am struggling to work out the cause of the problem.

My Linux Subversion server is also using version 1.7.8. What could be causing the problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is probably because the internal representation of the files or in the database are slightly [or much] different on a Linux and a Windows machine. Make your own copy on the Linux machine, and commit from that into the central repo, then pull it down on your windows machine.

    In general, it’s never a good idea to access the same copy of a version controlled repository from two different machines.

    I use SVN for web work, and that’s how I work – I do nearly all my work on a Linux machine, but I do have a repo on my windows laptop.

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