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Re: "svn move" broken?

From: Michael Schmitt <schmitt_at_TI.Uni-Trier.DE>
Date: 2003-06-05 15:38:49 CEST

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>What would be less confusing?
>
>"Sorry, you attempted to commit '/project/subdir1', but failed,
> because it is out-of-date."
>
>Is it the word "transaction" that is confusing?
>
Yes, definitely. You could even be more explicit:

    "Someone else has updated this file. Please run 'svn update'" (or
something similar)

>>Although all previous commits were successful (at least I thought so),
>>svn did not update my working copy correctly! Or, more precisely, it
>>did not update the meta information in my working copy, since the real
>>files had definitely gone before! And there was no other user working
>>in this project at the same time.
>>
>>
>This is a buglet that I believe we're working on. Fortunately, your
>analysis of the problem was completely wrong.
>
>Don't worry, this will be fixed.
>
Phew... I do my best to convince other people that svn is a great
program. However, my collegue and I face serious problems. Of course, we
are not at all able to send you a precise test case :-( At some point we
just drove the repository in a state where some data were lost and the
working copy was broken. No idea how this could happen. It would be nice
if the upper bug could be fixed. I guess this made it easier the
identify "real" problems.

Many thanks for your answer,

Michael

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