svn changes my files names

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.

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.

The issue is most probably related to the fact that the filesystem is case insensitive. You should check what the options for mounting the filesystem are, and in particular disable automatic conversion to lower case. Subversion treats the file names as case sensitive, but your current file system is converting it to lower case, and thus the result of the status:

? cnt/readme
! cnt/README

That means that subversion believes it created a file named cnt/README but that file is not present in the current file system (! mark means deleted), and at the same time if sees cnt/readme as a new file present in the filesystem but that was never added to subversion)

Fix your mount options, or use a case sensitive filesystem, and you will be fine.