Re: Update fails but fresh checkout works

On 05.02.2010 20:27, Patter01 wrote:
>> Never, ever (I repeat: never, ever) mess with the .svn folders. Do not
> copy them over other .svn folders.
> Since you already did that, your working copy is now corrupt. Do a fresh
> checkout. Anything else won't help and will only make it worse.
>
> Errrrr...I get that it's not something to do normally. I'm just proving that
> the issue is local and not actually an access permission to the server. I
> further narrowed it down to definitely be the "incomplete" message that is
> in the "entry" file.
>
> The question is: why does the "incomplete" cause an update to fail? and how
> can I fix an "incomplete" ? The SVN Cleanup does not seem to help with this.
> Also, I'm confused on how the incomplete happened. I never canceled an
> update or checkout. It just happened with one of my updates all of the
> sudden.

Incomplete means that the folder isn't complete, i.e. there's some
content missing. This can happen if e.g. an update is interrupted or failed.

Stefan

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