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Re: Messed up WC after switch (SVN 1.2.3)

From: Matt Doran <matt.doran_at_papercut.biz>
Date: 2005-12-06 12:21:31 CET

Hi,

Does anyone know the best way to recover your WC after the switch fails
half way though (like I've encountered below)?

Toby Johnson ... also asked a similar question and hasn't been
answered: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-12/0165.shtml

Thanks,
Matt

Matt Doran wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using svn daily for over a year ... but only been working
> with branches more recently. Today I encountered a problem switching
> from a feature branch back to trunk. The branch added a new
> subproject with it's own build output (that was svn:ignore'd). After
> committing my work I tried to 'switch' back to trunk that's when the
> trouble started. Although I originally encountered this using the
> latest TSVN release, I have been able to reproduce it using svn 1.2.3
> on Debian (repro recipe attached).
>
> The switch fails with the unfriendly message:
>
> svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
> svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
>
>
> That really confused me. For one the '.' indicated that the current
> directory was the modified (when it wasn't), but in fact the problem
> was deeper down. Not knowing what the problem was I tried a number
> of things to fix (try switching again, try switching back, revert,
> update, cleanup, etc) .... nothing worked. And the errors got worse ...
>
> svn: Working copy '<foldername>' is missing or not locked
>
> I eventually figured out that the problem was due to some unversioned
> and ignored files in the new subproject on the branch. And I don't
> remember how I fix the WC .... but it wasn't obvious.
>
> I've attached a recipe that reproduces this problem (and my unhelpful
> attempts to clean things up). I've also attached the output of the
> script.
>
> Could someone explain how I could avoid this situation in the
> future.... and resolve it if it happens again?
>
> Should this be raised as an issue? In the very least the initial
> error that is displayed could be improved to make it clearer what went
> wrong, and how to fix.....
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> $ switch-repro.sh
> 1.2.3
>
> Committed revision 1.
> Checked out revision 1.
>
> Committed revision 2.
> At revision 2.
> A subproj
> A subproj/src.c
> property 'svn:ignore' set on 'subproj'
> Adding subproj
> Adding subproj/src.c
> Transmitting file data .
> Committed revision 3.
> svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
> svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
> try reverting ... nope
> try updating ... nope
> svn: Working copy 'subproj' is missing or not locked
> try switching again ... nope
> svn: Working copy 'subproj' is missing or not locked
> try switching back ... nope
> svn: Working copy 'subproj' is missing or not locked
> delete offending dir ... now I am in real trouble
> and the switch still fails
> svn: Working copy 'subproj' is missing or not locked
> try cleanup ... this does not help
> svn: 'subproj' is not a working copy directory
> $
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> svn --version -q
>
> svnadmin create repo
>
> # Create a project
> REPO=file://`pwd`/repo
> svn mkdir $REPO/trunk -m "create trunk"
> svn co $REPO/trunk wc
>
> cd wc
>
> # Create a branch where we are adding a new subproject
> svn copy $REPO/trunk $REPO/branch -m "create branch"
>
> # Start working on a new branch
> svn switch $REPO/branch
>
> # Create a new subproject
> mkdir subproj
> echo source > subproj/src.c
> svn add subproj
>
> # Simulates creating build output
> mkdir subproj/build-output
> svn ps "svn:ignore" build-output subproj
>
> svn commit -m "add new subproject"
>
> # Switch back to trunk ... boom
> svn switch $REPO/trunk
>
> # At this point the working copy is stuffed, try various fixes
> echo try reverting ... nope
> svn revert .
>
> echo try updating ... nope
> svn up
>
> echo try switching again ... nope
> svn switch $REPO/trunk
>
> echo try switching back ... nope
> svn switch $REPO/branch
>
> echo delete offending dir ... now I am in real trouble
> rm -Rf subprj/build-output
>
> echo and the switch still fails
> svn switch $REPO/trunk
>
> echo try cleanup ... this does not help
> svn cleanup
>
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>
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Received on Tue Dec 6 12:24:19 2005

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