Why does SVN (etc…) fail to rename files?
$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs svn: Can’t move ‘kdelibs/.svn/tmp/entries’ to ‘kdelibs/.svn/entries’: Operation not permitted The reason is that SFTP protocol version 3 (which is implemented by OpenSSH’s sftp-server) defines the rename operation slightly differently than POSIX. The difference is that renaming to an existing file or directory will fail instead of atomically replacing the old file. The -o workaround=rename option will try to emulate POSIX rename semantics, but it cannot guarantee atomicity. In most of the cases this doesn’t matter, and things will work fine with this option.
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