Re: Need advice on recovering from a bad update

On Monday 24 November 2008, Bob wrote:
> I did an update on a fairly large project and it looks like one or
> more files didn't update properly. The project no longer runs. None of
> the versioned files in the working copy were modified before the
> update.

Any error message from TSVN you might want to share with us?

> I'm assuming that one of more files was corrupted on download in the
> first update. Check for updates reports nothing to update (even after
> a successful cleanup).

To me, this rather sounds like some broken tool has damaged the WC's metadata,
i.e. the stuff in the '.svn' dirs. This could cause any kind of oddness, an
generally can only be reliably repaired by using a new working copy.

What I could imagine is also a user error. In particular that you either
updated to a different revision or that you switched you WC (or part
thereof!) to some tag. Another possible error could be uncommitted local
changes - it's all a bit hard to guess without more info.

> If I do have to delete all the versioned files, should I delete them
> from within TSVN or via the OS?

You want to delete files from your WC, not from the repository, so use the OS
to delete them.

Uli

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