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Re: Probable bug with svn copy

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:52:54 +0000

Hi Alan.

Thanks for this report, and sorry for the long time to respond.

I finally got around to converting your recipe into an executable script
(on Linux) which is attached, and with this it is easy to reproduce the
problem.

On Thu, 2009-12-17, Alan Spencer wrote:
> I've been asked to analyse a problem we have had with subversion and
> come to the conclusion there is a bug in at least the client.
>
>
> The scenario was someone committed a new directory that made a build
> fail and in order to free up the build this commit was reverse merges
> (merge -c -RRRR)
>
> The individual in question wanted their changes back and the opportunity
> to fix the problem. This was done by reverse merging the reverse merge.
>
> They then fixed the problems, which included renaming a file.
>
> They then committed these changes and updated and all looked OK.
>
> Updating on other working copy showed that both the original and renamed
> file existed, but the working copy used did not show this.
>
>
>
> I wanted to find out if this is user error or a bug and if it has been
> logged already.

This certainly looks like a bug. It sounds familiar, but I can't find it
in the issue tracker.

> And is there a way to achieve this without hitting this problem.

I'm not sure.

> Here is a log of my reproducing this:
[...]
> C:\dev\projects\build\build\svn-experiments\experiment-1>svn commit -m
> "Revert revert and renaming svn merge -c -16666 . svn move
> systemtest\audit\FirstName.txt systemtest\audit\SecondName.txt" .
> Adding experiment-1\systemtest\audit
> Adding experiment-1\systemtest\audit\SecondName.txt
> Committed revision 16667.

With a release candidate for 1.6.8, using the attached script, I get the
same result as you.

With a trunk build (r898816), using the attached script, I get a
different problem here: the commit sort of fails:

+ svn commit -m 'Revert revert and renaming svn merge -c -16666 . svn
move systemtest/audit/FirstName.txt systemtest/audit/SecondName.txt' .
Adding experiment-1/systemtest/audit
Deleting experiment-1/systemtest/audit/FirstName.txt
Adding experiment-1/systemtest/audit/SecondName.txt
svn: Commit succeeded, but other errors follow:
svn: Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
svn: The node 'FirstName.txt' was not found.

This is interesting, and it would be good to turn this script into a
test in the test suite so that we remember to fix the bug. Any
volunteers?

- Julian

>
> UPDATE ELSEWHERE
> ----------------------------------
>
> C:\dev\CO\trunk>svn up build\svn-experiments\experiment-1\
> A build\svn-experiments\experiment-1\systemtest\audit
> A build\svn-experiments\experiment-1\systemtest\audit\FirstName.txt
> A build\svn-experiments\experiment-1\systemtest\audit\SecondName.txt
> Updated to revision 16667.

Received on 2010-01-13 17:53:34 CET

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