On Dec 15, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Dale Worley wrote:
> Hjörtur Arnarson wrote:
>> I am having trouble with recovering from a failed switch. A switch
>> fails
> when it needs to delete a file or a directory that has not been added
> to the
> repository. When this happens, what is the best way to recover.
>
> It seems to me that switch should never leave the working copy in an
> inconsistent state -- at worst, it might have to quit part way through
> the
> switch, but that would only leave the working copy with mixed
> revisions, and
> possibly some un-versioned files or directories.
>
There was, until very recently, a nasty bug in 'svn switch' which did
exactly this: if you interrupted it, it would leave your working copy
is a corrupted state. (Even worse, it wasn't always immediately
obvious that it was corrupted!)
It's been fixed in /trunk, and it should be out in 1.1.2 soon.
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Received on Wed Dec 15 17:25:37 2004