> svn cat -r99 foo.jpg > foo.jpg # overwrite foo.jpg with r99
> svn -v status
>
> Status should show only foo.jpg as modified and the first revision
> numbers all at 100 (since you did an update to HEAD).
>
> svn commit
> After all this I hope it works for you.
Yes, this works perfectly. Thanks. Only issues is it's a command-
line only thing. I have several artists on the project that are not
as technically savvy as the programmers and using the command-line is
not in the cards. For the time-being, I can just fix the stuff
myself. Thanks again.
Ron
On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:55 -0700, Ron Gilbert wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps the best way would be to place the non-corrupt binary file
>>> into
>>> your working copy and then commit your changes.
>>> This will make a new HEAD revision with the updated file.
>>>
>>
>> This is what I was trying to do...I was doing this under TSVN and
>> getting errors about my working copy not being uptodate.
>>
>> I just tried the same thing using the command line (Windows):
>>
>> # Get old, non-corrupt copy
>> svn update -r99 foo.jpg
>>
>
> Now you cannot commit because your working copy is in a mixed revision
> and out-of-date as far as subversion is concerned.
>
> Was it luck that r99 was the file or are you following suit with my
> revision numbers? Anyway, this should hopefully do it.
> svn up -rHEAD .
>
> Where . is the directory foo.jpg lives in. Now overwrite the file
> using
> the version in r99. Normally for source code you would do the reverse
> merge, but in this case a binary merge is sketchy so simply dump the
> file at that revision (`svn help cat` for more info).
>
> svn cat -r99 foo.jpg > foo.jpg # overwrite foo.jpg with r99
> svn -v status
>
> Status should show only foo.jpg as modified and the first revision
> numbers all at 100 (since you did an update to HEAD).
>
> svn commit
>
> Now you should be able to commit without the error message below since
> the working copy is up-to-date. SVN thinks you modified foo.jpg, and
> you did, it just holds r99 data.
>
>
>> If I modify foo.jpg, then I get a "Transaction failed, file out of
>> date" (not exact words).
>>
>
> After all this I hope it works for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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