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Re: "svn move" broken?

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-06-05 15:21:14 CEST

Michael Schmitt <schmitt@TI.Uni-Trier.DE> writes:

> Deleting subdir1
> svn: Transaction is out of date
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: out of date: `/project/subdir1' in txn `xp'
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn: '/home/TI3/schmitt/project/svn-commit.tmp'
>
> First of all, this message is absolutely confusing. Please, please
> change it to make it more suitable for dummy users like me!

What would be less confusing?

"Sorry, you attempted to commit '/project/subdir1', but failed,
 because it is out-of-date."

Is it the word "transaction" that is confusing?
Because otherwise, the message already says that

    1) the commit failed
    2) /project/subdir1 was out-of-date
    3) the commit message was left in a tmpfile

> After all while, I found out what this message means and I ran "svn
> update subdir1". And here comes the surprise:
>
> D subdir1/FileXXX1
> D subdir1/FileXXX2
> ...
>
> Although all previous commits were successful (at least I thought so),
> svn did not update my working copy correctly! Or, more precisely, it
> did not update the meta information in my working copy, since the real
> files had definitely gone before! And there was no other user working
> in this project at the same time.

This is a buglet that I believe we're working on. Fortunately, your
analysis of the problem was completely wrong. The metadata *was*
tracked correctly in your working copy. The files were definitely
gone already, and subdir1 definitely knew this information.

The "D" actions you see were simply no-ops. The bug here is that
subdir1 didn't correctly report its state to the server, so the server
sent redundant commands that did nothing.

Don't worry, this will be fixed.

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