It happened to me too. I wasn't as persistent in trying to reproduce this.
Once I got in that "funny state" I deleted my local copy and started from
scratch again.
I was using: svn 1.1.2, both client and server, local repository.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Hanchrow [mailto:offby1@blarg.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:09 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: issue 1900 and "switch" leaving wc in a "funny" state
>
>
> This is one of those cases that's really hard to describe, but I'll
> try ...
>
> Issue 1900 (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1900)
> includes a script meant to reproduce a problem. As it happens, the
> precise problem that the reporter reported has been fixed, but I
> noticed that, after I run the script, the working copy is in a "funny"
> state, which I've run into before. What do I mean by "funny"? Well,
> here's the output of "svn st":
>
> ! .
> ! S a
> ! a/longer
> ? a/longer/path/file3
> ! a/longer/path
> S a/longer/path/file2
> S file1
>
> So by "funny" I mean "`svn st' outputs lots of exclamation points and
> `S's".
>
> Now, I've gotten working copies into this sort of state a few times
> before, and I'm never sure what I did, or how to recover. So my
> questions are:
>
> * when I find myself in this sort of state, what can I do to "get back
> to normal", short of deleting the entire working copy and starting
> over with a fresh checkout?
>
> * how can I avoid getting into this state in the first place?
>
> ::
>
> Here's a shell script (a modified version of the one attached to issue
> 1900) demonstrates something curious, and presumably related: the
> output of ``svn info'' changes in a subtle (and to my eyes, buggy) way
> after the switch:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> #set -e
> #
> # switch seems to break when you have local changes on a
> file exclusive
> # to a branch, but only if the file is deep within your wc
> #
>
> SVNROOT=file://`pwd`/repo
>
> # if TESTPATH=path, no breakage!
> TESTPATH=a/longer/path
>
> assert ()
> {
> echo assertion "$@"
> local expected="URL:
> $SVNROOT/branches/branch1/`dirname $TESTPATH`"
> local actual=$(svn info $(dirname $TESTPATH) | egrep '^URL')
> [ "$expected" == "$actual" ] || {
> echo "Expected $expected"
> echo "but instead got $actual"
> exit 1
> }
> echo ok
> }
>
> rm -rf repo wc
>
> svnadmin create repo
> svn mkdir $SVNROOT/trunk -m 'add trunk' # revision 1
> svn mkdir $SVNROOT/branches -m 'add branches' # revision 2
> svn checkout $SVNROOT/trunk wc
>
> cd wc
> echo file1 >file1
> mkdir -p $TESTPATH
> echo file2 >$TESTPATH/file2
> svn add *
> svn commit -m 'add contents' # revision 3
>
> svn cp $SVNROOT/trunk $SVNROOT/branches/branch1 -m
> 'branch trunk' # revision 4
> svn switch $SVNROOT/branches/branch1
>
> echo file3 >$TESTPATH/file3
> svn add $TESTPATH/file3
> svn commit -m 'add file3 on branch' # revision 5
> assert 1
>
> echo modify file3 >>$TESTPATH/file3
> svn switch $SVNROOT/trunk
>
> # This prevents the problems.
> #rm $TESTPATH/file3
>
> svn switch $SVNROOT/branches/branch1
> # Failed to add file 'a/longer/path/file3': object of the
> same name already exists
> assert 2
>
> echo Expect Lots of scary-looking \`!\' and \`S\'
> svn st
>
>
> --
> Governing the U.S. is like playing 200 simultaneous chess
> matches (while whiny columnists second-guess every move on every
> board).
> -- Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist
>
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