Re: Unix and a commit by a different user.

Gleason, James D wrote:
> We had a working view owned by one user.

We call them Working Copies here (WC). Are you used to ClearCase?

> Another user did a commit from that view.
> He got an error that said something about text-base. [We don't have the
> error recorded]

You are probably talking about this issue:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1509

Update your server and clients to Subversion 1.0.2 and it should work for you now.

>
> Now we get
> svn: Checksum mismatch for
> 'common/mcap/.svn/text-base/coe.mux.mcapx.rt_bm.2.ada.svn-base';
> expected: 'b9cfa97357c4e3b06c476fd344214dcb', actual:
> '2238a24ae1dedb84d171193cd497bf3c'
>
> So I have two questions ...
> Is this working view permanently corrupted?

Probably the easiest way to resolve this part is to check out the WC anew. If
you have pending local changes, copy them into the new checkout before deleting
the old WC (i.e. mv the existing WC out of the way, check out a new WC, then
selectively copy back the changed files).

> Is it possible for one user to commit from a working view owned by
> someone else?
>

In general, shared working copies are not usually the right mode of operation,
but in some situations they are preferably to the alternative (two WC's with
multi-GB storage requirements). If your files are not huge, you should probably
enforce a single user per WC, just for simplicity purposes.

HTH

John

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