"Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@collab.net> wrote on 05/11/2005 02:04:10 PM:
> In the process of fixing a bug in 1.2.0rc3 (yes, this means that
> 1.2.0rc4 is coming soon!), we made a change to the way that locks are
> stored on-disk in fsfs repositories.
>
> What this means is that if you've created locks in your fsfs repository
> in 1.2.0rc3 or earlier, when you attempt to access an existing lock
> with either 1.2.0rc4 or trunk, you will get an error that looks like
> this:
>
> "svn: Corrupt lockfile for path /xxx"
>
> Your lockfile has not been corrupted, it's just that we renamed one of
> the fields in the lock representation and subversion is attempting to
> read the new field and not finding it.
>
> There are two things you can do to rectify this situation:
>
> 1. Delete the REPOSITORY/db/locks directory. This will, however,
> remove all the locks in your repository.
>
> 2. Do a search and replace of "is_xml_comment" with "is_dav_comment" on
> all the files in REPOSITORY/db/locks/*/
>
> Remember--this applies only to fsfs: bdb repositories store their locks
> differently.
>
> Lastly, this isn't technically a change in repository format since we
> haven't officially released 1.2.0 yet, and that's the version that has
> the new locking feature in it.
>
> Apologies for the inconvenience,
Just an additional fyi.. this also effects svn status -u, at least when
there are some locks in the repository.
Mark
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