On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Joseph Galbraith wrote:
> > Philip Martin wrote:
> >
> >>> Adding doc
> >>> Adding (bin) doc\bp.odg
> >>> Transmitting file data ..svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> >>> svn: Out of date: 'DATA/ErrorLog.FPT' in transaction '16-1'
> >>>
> >>> It seems when the first attemt failed it didn't completely roll back
> >>> everything it had started, which I am guessing is a bug?
> >>
> >>
> >> No. The first commit failed during post-commit processing of the
> >> working copy, that's after the commit completed in the repository.
> >> The failure means the working copy is out-of-date compared to the
> >> repository, so the second commit fails.
> >
> >
> > Definitely an error message that is a little confusing though...
> > maybe it could be tweaked a bit to say that the commit succeeded,
> > but the working copy could not be updated?
> >
>
Agreed. We do normally say that, this must be a bug.
> Why is there "post-commit processing" ? shouldn't all processing be part of the
> transaction such that if any parts fail, the whole thing gets rolled back?
>
Because after the commit has succeded in the repository, the working copy
must be updated to reflect the actual revisions stored there. That's not
part of the server transaction
Regards,
//Peter
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Received on Tue Oct 18 20:55:12 2005