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Re: File not found: transaction 'ct', path 'trunk/Setup'

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-05-18 02:59:14 CEST

Ian Bevan wrote:

>I have found a way to reproduce this problem;
>
>1. On machine A, create a new file and commit it.
>2. On machine B, create a file with the same name in the same folder.
>3. On machine B, perform an update on the folder with the file in it.
>4. Get a "This file already exists" error.
>5. From now on, all updates give the "File not found: transaction...."
>message.
>
>
I cannot reproduce this using either file:// or svn://, with the 1.0;2
command-line client.

>Clean up does not work. The only solution appears to be to rename or delete
>the folder.
>
>Note that I found this accidentally. It turns out that Microsoft Visual
>Studio will create an empty .cpp for a file referred to in a .vcproj project
>that does not exist. This in turns causes subversion to freak out, as
>described above.
>
>
Not "freak out", just report that the file already exists. Removing the
file and repeating the update fixes that.

>Note also that this is NOT the only cause of this error, it's just one that
>I found I can reproduce.
>
>Platforms: All winxp pro, running svnserve.
>
>

I'm stuck at this point. All my efforts to reproduce this have failed.
Will everyone who's experiencing this problem /please/ try to give me a
consistent reproduction recipe, or failing that, at least explain
exactly which sequence of events lead to the error in their case,
including how you check out the working copy?

-- Brane

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