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Re: commit fails

From: Ingo Weiss <ingo01_at_ingoweiss.com>
Date: 2006-06-03 22:00:15 CEST

Thanks, Ryan, for your reply!

I followed your steps but unfortunately now I am getting errors for
another file. Also I am seeing strange status markers for a couple more
files and directories. I feel that by now I tried so many differnt
things that it is impossible to retrace the steps, so I think I would
like to start over, set my working directory asside, write down what
files changed, check out a fresh working directory from the repository,
and massage in the changes. And then commit!

Do you see anything that would speak against this approach?
Thanks again!
Ingo

> On Jun 3, 2006, at 16:42, Ingo Weiss wrote:
>
> > my commit fails with the following message:
> >
> >
> > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > svn: File '/app/myfile.rhtml' already exists
> >
> >
> > I am not completely sure what I did to myfile.rhtml, but I think I
> > used
> > "svn copy" to create it based on an exesting file, but misspelled
it's
> > name and renamed it in the finder (which probably was a bad idea).
> > Now I
> > don't know what I can try to fix the problem.
>
> Yes, you should not have renamed the file using any tool other than
> Subversion. Now we'll have to figure out what you did, undo it, and
> do it the right way.
>
> Presumably you used something like "svn copy somefile.rhtml
> oopsfile.rhtml", realized that "oopsfile.rhtml" was the wrong name
> and used the Mac OS X Finder to rename it to "myfile.rhtml", then
> used "svn add myfile.rhtml" to add it. If so, you should undo each
> step in reverse chronological order. Revert the addition: "svn revert
> myfile.rhtml". Use the Finder to rename the file back to
> oopsfile.rhtml. Undo the copy: "svn revert oopsfile.rhtml". Now copy
> the file properly: "svn cp somefile.rhtml myfile.rhtml". Then you
> should be able to commit the change.
>
> If you had copied the file, and then made changes to it, and were now
> wanting to commit both the creation of the file and the changes, then
> you would, after doing the correct copy above, have to re-do your
> changes. If the changes are extensive, take your current myfile.rhtml
> and copy it somewhere else first (using the Finder or other non-
> Subversion means), do the above steps, then finally replace
> myfile.rhtml in your working copy with the version you saved.
>
> If this doesn't work, show us the error you get. If possible, show us
> all the commands and other steps you performed to get into this
> situation so we can show you where you went wrong. (I realize you may
> not remember exactly what you did and probably didn't write it down
> at the time.)
>
>
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