Thanks! I'm tried the suggested "svn update --depth empty" workaround, and
that seems to have worked for me.
-Brett
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Brett Coon - brett.coon@gmail.com - http://brettcoon.smugmug.com
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