Re: Possible bug: Revisions with no paths changed and no properties set?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:35:49PM -0400, Jim Sokoloff wrote:
> We have a strange situation on a 1.6.3 svn repo. I'm stopping short of
> calling it a bug right now, but I suspect it is.
>
> I have a handful of revisions (all from the same user and roughly the
> same time) containing no changed paths, no changed props, etc.
>
> Meaning: when I svnadmin dump those revisions, they have a log message,
> author, etc, but no paths or props. (This is not the case of doing an
> svn log from the "wrong" part of the tree and finding nothing. There is
> nothing to be found.)
>
> a. Any explanation for how that can happen?

Yes. Use a pre-1.6 server and commit the deletion of a file which has
already been deleted in the repository. If you make no other changes
within the same commit, you will get an empty revision.

This was fixed in 1.6.x as part of the tree conflicts effort.
A 1.6.x server will perform an out-of-dateness check before deleting
an item, and reject the commit if the item is out-of-date (i.e. its
BASE revision is not HEAD).

> b. worth filing a bug over?

As long as the above is the only way you can reproduce it,
there's no point in filing a new bug about this.

Stefan

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Received on 2009-09-29 00:20:28 CEST