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Re: [Issue 1751] svn switch may corrupt working copy

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: 2004-03-09 01:28:36 CET

makl wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote:
>
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1751
>
>> It says "Note: It is irrelevant for the recipe whether wc2 is checked
>> out recursively or not." But, as I understand it, the "switch"
>> command must be non-recursive for that recipe. I did some experiments
>> to confirm this.
>
> Correct for the first recipe. For the second, wc2 must be checked out
> non recursively.
>
>> And it says "Changed summary, since a part of the problem occurs with
>> recursive working copies too, and in all cases the working copy is
>> dead." Again, as I understand it, this still referred only to
>> problems caused by "switch --non-recursive".
>
> Correct for the first recipe.
>
>> There are other, similar failures such as the one in the issue in
>> which the destination URL does exist but the switch fails with
>> "Working copy 'www' not locked".
>
> For another example see the second recipe in the issue.

Oh yes - I'm sorry - I had not read your second recipe carefully.

So, we have reproduction recipes in which a plain "switch" command currupts the WC when it fails. Now we just need to start debugging!

- Julian

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