I fixed the problem by doing a new checkout. This seemed to restore
the file when svn up would not. Everything is back to normal.
Thanks again,
Paul
On 2/2/06, Paul Dumais <pauld@ece.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I have tried svn up (many times). I am getting a different error
> message (sorry if I did not catch this last time). You see I have a
> file that used to be revision controlled and now I need it to be
> revision controlled again.
> This is what I do:
> svn up; works ok, does not restore the file in quesion because it is
> not (any longer) revision controlled
> svn status; shows the file that I will be adding with the '?' which
> means that it is not revision controlled.
> svn add 'file_in_quesion'; this works ok so far
> snv commit; problems!
> Adding 'file_in_question'
> Transmitting file data .svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: File already exists: filesystem '/home/pauld/svn/db', transaction
> '23', path '/trunk/file_in_question'
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn: '/home/pauld/work/svn-commit.tmp'
>
> I hope this is more clear. I think perhaps I have confused people by
> not noticing the change in error message (sorry).
>
> Anyway, does anyone have any ideas? I'm googling the answer, but not
> much seems to be coming up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/2/06, Gale, David <David.Gale@hypertherm.com> wrote:
> > Paul Dumais wrote:
> > > Thanks for the help.
> > >
> > > This does not work though since svn up does nothing to my working
> > > copy. Why would it since I deleted the file from the repository? It
> > > seems that the repository has a file with the file name I want to use,
> > > however the file is not at HEAD. Therefore svn up will not give update
> > > the file. Howver, for some reason it will not leat me add a file with
> > > the same name to the repository without complaining that it has a file
> > > already that it wants me to update. Very strange. Perhaps I have to
> > > expunge this file from all older revisions first? Another option might
> > > be to get the files in question back into HEAD, update, then try
> > > again.
> > >
> > > Very puzzling.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > On 2/2/06, Marc Haisenko <haisenko@comdasys.com> wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 02 February 2006 00:24, Paul Dumais wrote:
> > >>> Adding work.leo
> > >>> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > >>> svn: Out of date: '/trunk/work.leo' in transaction '22'
> > >>> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> > >>> svn: '/home/pauld/work/svn-commit.tmp'
> > >>>
> > >>> whenever I do an svn commit
> > >>>
> > >>> I had previously removed the work.leo file from revision control.
> > >>> Now it will not let me add it again. It seems counter-intuitive
> > >>> that there should be an out of date error when there should be no
> > >>> such file in the HEAD of the repository. How can I use this file
> > >>> name once again?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> Paul
> > >>
> > >> This message normally means you want to check in a file which
> > >> changes since you've checked it out. Just do an "svn up" and resolve
> > >> any conflicts if any occure, then check in.
> >
> > Did you actually *try* doing an svn up, or do you just think that it
> > won't work?
> >
> > Given the error message, svn up should clear your problem.
> >
> > -David
> >
>
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