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Re: Switching problem

From: Jody Shumaker <jody.shumaker_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-04-17 03:37:44 CEST

On 4/16/06, Vincent Poinot <vincent.poinot@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Switching won't work for some reason.
> I have a project in its working copy: C:\devl\project1
>
> This project has a trunk and a feature branch I have been working on for
> some time (the trunk has not evolved in the meantime). In the feature
> branch, I did add a folder, renamed an other one, modified and added
> some files.
>
> Now I want to port this branch to the trunk: so I committed all my
> changes in the branch, and tried to switch to the trunk, but I got the
> following message:
>
> Error: Won't delete locally modified directory 'C:\devl\project1'
>
> What does this mean? There are no pending modifications in my project
> since I took care to commit everything before switching.
>
> If I try to cleanup, I get:
>
> Subversion reported an error while doing a cleanup!
> C:\devl\project1\subdir is not a working copy directory.
>
> where subdir is a directory I added in the branch (hence not present in
> the trunk where I want to switch to). Is this a problem? Files in this
> subdir have been deleted by the switch, so that I'm stuck with an
> ill-formed working copy now... (I have backups, fortunately).
>
> (I don't know if this is relevant, but the "subdir" itself contains sub
> directories and files that are not under version control).
>
> What should I do now?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Vincent.
>
During the switch subversion went to delete the directory that didn't
exist on the new location. When it does this, it only deletes files
that are under revision control and unmodified. If there's any
unversioned files or a locally modified file in the directory it wants
to delete, it gives this error.

All you have to do is make sure you don't need any of those files, and
if not then delete the directory. After that run the cleanup and it
should procede fine.

- Jody

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