Hi all,
Whenever I switch, it always goes wrong and I have no idea why.
Today, I committed everything and then tried to switch and it said
something about local unversioned files and failed to switch (but
everything was committed and no unversioned files showed up in the
commit dialog). But after it's said that, it seems to leave your
working copy in an unusable state rather than putting it back to how it
was before the switch. It tells you to try a clean up which appears to
work but then you can't revert and restore the folders which were
deleted during the switch. It seems that subversion, or TSVN doesn't
perform any checks to see if the switch is going to work before it
actually does it and it does it non-atomically, so if it fails, it
leaves you with a broken working copy that has to be deleted.
Is there any way to reliably switch or should I just stick to setting up
a new checkout and working environment every time I want to change to a
different branch? Are there some checks I'm supposed to be doing before
I switch that I've missed? Switching seems to be very unreliable and
I've only seen it work once or twice in the dozen or so times I've tried
it recently. If it's not going to work, why doesn't it tell you so
before it starts altering the working copy? If it's because of
"unversioned files" surely it can check for this before it does work
which will break the working copy?
So far, it's failed about three times in the last week and each time I
have to recover from it, it takes me about half an hour to set up all
the correct folder permissions on a new working copy.
Nick...
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Received on 2008-06-09 17:05:16 CEST