On Monday 15 December 2003 03:40, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> (In the rest of this e-mail, ROOT refers to the root of the repository,
> http://server.local:8080/svn/qm)
>
> Originally, I setup the repository with the following structure:
>
> ROOT/trunk/qmaster/
> ROOT/branches/qmaster/...
> ROOT/tags/qmaster/...
>
> created by cvs2svn.py from our original CVS repository. I decided now
> that this structure was a bit odd, and decided to use cvs move on the
> repository (actually through the TSVN repository browser) in order to
> achieve the following layout:
>
> ROOT/qmaster/trunk/
> ROOT/qmaster/branches/...
>
> ('tags' got deleted shortly after checkout, as there was no longer
> anything relevant in there).
>
> Now, everyone else just had a working copy with a checkout of
> ROOT/trunk/qmaster/; when they try and run an update on this working
> copy, the following error occurs:
>
> REPORT request failed on '/svn/qm/!svn/vcc/default'
>
> svn_repos_dir_delta: invalid edit anchoring; at least one of the input
> paths is not a directory, and there was no source entry.
>
> My guess is that this occurs because the 'qmaster' directory has been
> moved to a location that doesn't exit in their working copy. How can I
> work around this? If I could 'expand' their working copy to contain the
> entire tree instead of just the subdir it currently consists of, I
> suspect that would solve the problem; any workaround would be fine,
> though. I would prefer not to go through deleting the wc and checking
> out a new one, as there are changes in these working copies that need to
> be preserved.
>
> Any ideas?
Yep, that's pretty much it. The directory it's trying to update to
disappeared, so now it's a little confused. No worries though, use the 'svn
switch --relocate' command to move it to your new URL. This will update you
WC with the new URL, and you'll be ready to go.
-John
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Received on Mon Dec 15 10:14:43 2003