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Asked: 2026-05-31T05:24:13+00:00

I recently switched my development machine from Windows XP to Windows 7 and since

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I recently switched my development machine from Windows XP to Windows 7 and since that switch, I have a problem with files permissions when I do operations with Tortoise SVN.

Example:
I Have two ASP.NET website set on my local IIS. Beta and Devlo. Beta is a check out of the branch I’m working on and Devlo is a check out of the Trunk.
I made some change on the Beta website and Check it in.
Then I made a merge to reintegrate the branch in the truck on the Devlo website, but I got this error when I test it :

Parser Error   
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to 
service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details 
and modify your source file appropriately.  

Parser Error Message: Access to the path 'C:\[...]' is denied.

After investigation, I discovered that every file that was modified by the Tortoise SVN merge lost theirs file permission (Read, Read & Execute) for the users IUSE and IIS_IUSRS.

I could manually put them back, but this happen every time I perform an operation of this kind. Is there a way to keep those permissions unchanged by the SVN operation?

Update
Before the Merge, the file was inheriting is permission from the parent folder (has it’s supposed to do.)
Before Merge

But not after the merge :

After Merge

The original file (in the beta folder) was inheriting is permission from the parent folder.
Why the TortoiseSVN (explicitly?) block permission inheritance?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I had the same issue and fixed it with the help of this SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8993163/361831

    The answer mentions that updated files are copied to a .svn/tmp directory which is located in the top level of your working copy (as of tortoiseSVN 1.7). This top level dir didn’t have the IIS permissions so I guess they weren’t inheriting during the copy. So I just set the IIS permissions to that top level dir and set to inherit, and that fixed the issue.

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