Re: Can't copy to new branch because file exists?? (was Re: Confused about branches and partial switches)

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Brett Coon<brett.coon_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> In a discussion last month, BRM provided this helpful hint:
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM, BRM <bm_witness_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also, svn makes it really easy to branch from a working copy - even if you
>> haven't committed the changes to the current tree location. I've found this
>> very useful, especially when I made changes I didn't want to commit to that
>> tree but wasn't sure I wanted to toss out yet - just do 'svn copy .
>> http://svn/svn/project/branches/brett/branch-name' (not the period beween
>> 'copy' and 'http').
>
> I filed this away for later use because it seemed like such a great feature,
> and finally tried to use it today (I just got back from vacation, and wanted
> to save my uncommitted pre-vacation changes to a branch before updating my
> tree).
>
> Unfortunately, when I try to do this, the copy fails with this message (file
> and directory names changed to hide internal project name references):
>
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: File '/svn/project/branches/bcoon/b2/hw/b/f/v/TEF.v' already exists
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn:    'svn-commit.tmp'
>
> But there is no b2 branch yet!!  So how could a file exist in this branch?
> Here's what svn list reports:
>
> svn list ^/branches/bcoon
> b1/
>
> svn list http://svn/svn/project/branches/bcoon/b2
> svn: URL 'http://svn/svn/project/branches/bcoon/b2' non-existent in that
> revision
>
> I tried doing the copy to a different new branch, "b3", and got the same
> error.
>
> For the record, here is the copy command I'm using:
>
> svn copy . http://svn/svn/project/branches/bcoon/b2
>
> I'm perplexed.  And stumped.  And grumpy about my vacation being over.

This is a known bug.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3119

Fix is coming in SVN 1.6.5 client.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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