On 9/19/07, Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> wrote:
> (I apologize if I've this is the second time I've asked this -- I
> could have sworn I already did, but can find no trace of it)
>
> I am running a version of the svn trunk compiled Aug 10 2007,
> 13:57:42, and have noticed some odd behavior when trying out the new
> automatic merge-tracking feature:
>
> svn log -g file://$HOME/svn-repos/trunk/doodles/plt-scheme > /tmp/yow
> ../live/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/tree.c:2709: (apr_err=160013)
> svn: File not found: revision 4525, path '/trunk/doodles/plt-scheme/irc-v2/bot.ss'
>
> I assume that a combination of my not knowing what I'm doing, and a
> bug in my old version of Subversion, has somehow screwed up
> mergeinfo.db, and I don't particularly care about its contents anyway.
>
> I'd like to upgrade my version of subversion and keep using my repo.
> But I worry that my mergeinfo.db is in some bad state that is the
> fault of old code (either the Aug 10 version that I'm currently
> running, or one that's even older, which created it), and that if I
> upgrade to a newer trunk version of svn, and still have the same
> trouble, no developer will want to investigate, since the problem is
> indeed likely to have been caused by old code. That's why I want to
> delete it.
>
> So ... can I safely nuke mergeinfo.db? For what it's worth, I made a
> hotcopy of my repo, deleted the mergeinfo.db from that hotcopy, and
> ran "svn log -g" on it; it completed with no errors.
Yes you did already send. Dan Rall indicated you can just delete the
.db file and it will be created again the next time something needs to
write to it.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on Wed Sep 19 20:54:03 2007