Hack to work around bad cygwin, TMP and svn interaction.

trychange.py

 #!/usr/bin/python
 # Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 """Client-side script to send a try job to the try server. It communicates to
 the try server by either writting to a svn repository or by directly connecting
 to the server by HTTP.
 """
 
 import datetime
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       temp_file.flush()
 
       # Diff file
       current_time = str(datetime.datetime.now()).replace(':', '.')
       file_name = (EscapeDot(options.user) + '.' + EscapeDot(options.name) +
                    '.%s.diff' % current_time)
       full_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, file_name)
       gclient_utils.FileWrite(full_path, options.diff, 'wb')
 
       # Committing it will trigger a try job.
-      command = ['svn', 'import', '-q', temp_dir, options.svn_repo, '--file',
+      if sys.platform == "cygwin":
+        # Small chromium-specific issue here:
+        # git-try uses /usr/bin/python on cygwin but svn.bat will be used
+        # instead of /usr/bin/svn by default. That causes bad things(tm) since
+        # Windows' svn.exe has no clue about cygwin paths. Hence force to use
+        # the cygwin version in this particular context.
+        exe = "/usr/bin/svn"
+      else:
+        exe = "svn"
+      command = [exe, 'import', '-q', temp_dir, options.svn_repo, '--file',
                  temp_file.name]
       gclient_utils.CheckCall(command)
     except gclient_utils.CheckCallError, e:
       out = e.stdout
       if e.stderr:
         out += e.stderr
       raise NoTryServerAccess(' '.join(e.command) + '\nOuput:\n' + out)
   finally:
     temp_file.close()
     shutil.rmtree(temp_dir, True)
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   except (InvalidScript, NoTryServerAccess), e:
     if swallow_exception:
       return 1
     print e
     return 1
   return 0
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   sys.exit(TryChange(None, [], False))