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Re: [TSVN] More insight into TortoiseSVN trashed WC problem?

From: Stefan Küng <stefan.kueng_at_wagner-group.ch>
Date: 2004-08-27 09:34:16 CEST

Timothy B K. Kientzle wrote:
> My team and I have been struggling with TortoiseSVN
> ever since we switched from CVS, with problems that have
> been widely reported here. To help diagnose this, I've

Widely reported? Must have missed that...

> reproduced the problem state on a small sample project
> and tarred up the entire WC to attach to this message.
> Someone who understands SVN internals will hopefully be
> able to figure out what's going on here.
>
> I'm currently using TortoiseSVN 1.1.0RC on Windows XP against
> a Linux server running a recent SVN server release.
> I couldn't tell you the exact sequence of steps I followed
> to create this, but the broken WC (.tgz archive attached)
> is sitting on my disk right now; if anyone can suggest something
> to try, I'm happy to do so. With this WC, all of the following
> operations fail, even after a "cleanup" or restarting Explorer
> or even a system reboot:
> * Update fails with
> "Can't copy '.../.svn/text-base/foofoo.txt.svn-base'
> to '.../.svn/tmp/text-base/foofoo.txt.svn-base.tmp':
> The system cannot find the file specified"
> (the "foofoo.txt" file was deleted several revisions earlier, BTW)
> * Commit fails with "Commit failed (details follow):
> File '/svn/play/problem-test/foo.txt' already exists"

You didn't by any chance use the relocate command to switch to a
different branch?

Stefan

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