Jochem Schulenklopper <j.schulenklopper@gmail.com> writes:
> I stumbled into a vague problem, I searched the archives, found
> similar postings of this symptom... but no clear answer/solution was
> given. It's a non-blocking but confusing issue, hence this mail.
>
> The problem: suddenly I decided that my project's name needed to be
> changed. I have a local file system BDB-type repository, and the top
> directory in my repository also needed to change since it carried the
> project's name. I moved that folder... and relocated my working copy
> since its URL to a place in the repository changed.
>
> After this, svn commit-s and svn log-s seemed to be working fine...
> but svn update-s fail consistently with the mysterious "Cannot replace
> a directory from within" error message. I closely examined the change
> log and the result of svn info on typos, but didn't find any.
>
> >From the investigations I did, I found that the repository seems to be
> fine. A fresh checkout of a new working copy is functioning without
> problem. So, somehow, the working copy seems to be corrupted or
> out-of-sync, but the cause is not clear. Moving a repository folder
> without relocating the working copy will surely give an (the same)
> error, because the current registered URL (for the root of the working
> copy which happens to be at some deeper level in the repository)
> doesn't exist anymore. Apparently, the relocation of the working copy
> doesn't solve this inconsistency, in contrast to my expectation. (But
> I could be wrong.)
>
> While communicating with Joel Alexandre (who also mentioned this
> problem in December 2004), he mailed:
> <quoting relevant parts>
> I've never used move or relocate. [...] I did a checkout and after
> that i only used update. [...]
> When [...the problem...] happend for the first time, i contacted the
> repository administrator asking if he had changed something. The
> answer was that he didn't. The repository didn't change, i didn't
> change my WC.
> </quoting relevant parts>
>
> So, apparently the problem does not seem to be 100% correlated to my
> moving and relocating... but what is? Another poster replied something
> along the lines of "this seems to be a bug that they just haven't
> started working on". (Without offense:) Is that the current state, or
> is it still in the unknown?
> In case this behavior is exactly as designed ("it's not a bug, it's a
> feature!"), it would be a solution to clarify the error message, or
> improve the documentation on this point. I couldn't find a reference
> to this message in the documentation nor the FAQ.
In your old, not-functioning-quite-correctly working copy, does 'grep'
find any instances of the old repository name?
'svn switch --relocate' *should* have done what you expected, I don't
know why it didn't.
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Received on Wed Jan 5 18:47:55 2005