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Re: Disconnection halfway through commit - files now 'obstructed'

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-02-24 14:36:55 CET

On Feb 24, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Michael Abbott (Old) wrote:

> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>> On Feb 22, 2005, at 6:54 AM, Michael Abbott wrote:
>>> All the new files in the DB are considered to be 'obstructed' and I
>>> have no idea how to cancel my atomic operation.
>> Can you be more specific? Like, show us an actual transcript of the
>> command you typed, and the error message that resulted?
>
> I don't have any information on the original commands (done via
> TortoiseSVN) and I realised using the tool is hiding some of the
> symptoms.
>
> I tried these commands, however (thirdparty is the folder I was trying
> to add that broke half way through, "FireofDestiny - lua" is where the
> base of the working folder begins):
>
> ---------------->
> D:\Projects\FireOfDestiny - lua\libs>svn add thirdparty
> svn: warning: 'thirdparty' is already under version control
>
> D:\Projects\FireOfDestiny - lua\libs>svn status
> ~ thirdparty
>

That tilde is a bad sign. It means that 'thirdparty' is supposed to be
a file, and is now a directory, or vice versa. I have no idea how that
happened. Does it contain edits? If not, just delete it and let 'svn
up' recreate it.

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