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Resumable updates?

From: John Barstow <John_Barstow_at_gfsg.co.nz>
Date: 2002-10-31 22:46:53 CET

So, lately I've been doing lots of the following:

$ rmdir /s /q Subdir
$ svn up
A Subdir
A Subdir/foo
...

Basically, I get my a subdirectory of working copy in some weird state and
need to get a clean directory from the repository.
The problem is that we have some subdirectories with hundreds-to-thousands
of files, and sometimes the update will be interrupted in various ways.

What is frustrating is that the interrupted update leaves the working copy
in a bad state - the next svn update returns with an error about revision 0
of the Subdir, and svn cleanup does not correct the situation.
Ultimately, I usually end up recreating the working copy from scratch (since
checkouts seem to be more robust than updates). This leads to lots of
downtime.

So the question is:
 - Can update be more robust about interruptions; maybe do some
checkpointing or logging?
 - If not, can cleanup at least detect and correct the problem so that I can
run svn up without being forced to re-remove the directory?
 - Is there an alternative that I'm not aware of?

John C Barstow

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