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RE: failed to add directory

From: Dħbrowski, Leszek <ldabrowski_at_ivmx.pl>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:43:34 +0100

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From: Dħbrowski, Leszek
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:47 PM
To: 'users_at_subversion.apache.org'
Subject: failed to add directory

Hello,
I encountered the behaviour that looks like a bug.
I work with a quite big repository (local copy on my PC (x86, winXP SP3) has about 8GB
I did the following.
I started with the directory tree marked by the overly icon "normal" at the trunk node, I believe, that all was correct.
I start with the .xls file on the 8th level of the directory tree (with trunk on 1th). The file needed acquiring a lock to be changed.
1. I opened the file with MSexcel and tried to write it. Excell refused to do it, I closed excel.
2. I got the lock and opened the file again. I tried to write it, excel refused to do it because it thought that the file is read-only. I wrote the file with modified name
3. I closed the excel
4. I renamed the file to its original name using the file manager. It asked about overwriting, I confirmed.
Now I had modified file, which had not been committed.
5. I tried to do update on the trunk. svn marked with the red "modified{" icon the branch of the directory tree ( all its nodes, except the file itself) in which the file was located
6. I renamed the modified file and then I did the update on the trunk The last revision of the file was written in my local copy, but the tree still had been marked wit the "modified" icon .
7. I did the update of the trunk once again and I got the following error message:

Command: Update
Error: Failed to add directory 'E:\ld\pgnig\new_repo\trunk': a versioned directory of
Error: the same name already exists
Finished!:

I did the clean-up on trunk, svn reported it to be successful, but the next update on trunk ended with the same error message.

I used the following version:
TortoiseSVN 1.6.12, Build 20536 - 32 Bit , 2010/11/24 20:59:01
Subversion 1.6.15,
apr 1.3.8
apr-utils 1.3.9
neon 0.29.5
OpenSSL 0.9.8p 16 Nov 2010
zlib 1.2.3

I encountered this behaviour several times, usually I had to remove the reported directory and get the fresh copy with update, but the size of the repository is too big to mean this as a valuable work-around

Sincerely yours,
Leszek Dabrowski

Hello again,

The next day after the system reboot I looked at the directory tree using the file manager and nodes previously marked as modified, were marked as normal .
I did the update on the trunk and got the following message:

Command: Update
Updated: E:\ld\pgnig\new_repo\trunk\Docs byTopic\PGNiG Documents\Business Processes\3 Manage Customer\3.4 Manage Customer Relationship\English\EN_3.4.1.1 Manage Customer Contacts - SD.doc application/octet-stream
Updated: E:\ld\pgnig\new_repo\trunk\Groups\00.Management\03.Implementation Phase\MDC Estimates\PGNiG MDC CCBET Original Estimates.xls application/octet-stream
Updated: E:\ld\pgnig\new_repo\trunk\Groups\00.Management\03.Implementation Phase\MDC Estimates\PGNiG MDC CCBET Estimates for External Design_plannedGAPs.xls application/octet-stream
Error: Directory
Error: 'E:\ld\pgnig\new_repo\trunk\Code\cmi_structure\MOOG\CCB_INT_HOME\interfaces\I.006'
Error: is missing
Error: Directory
Error: 'E:\ld\pgnig\new_repo\trunk\Code\cmi_structure\MOOG\CCB_INT_HOME\interfaces\I.006'
Error: is missing
Error: Please execute the 'Cleanup' command.
Finished!:

The path
 'E:\ld\pgnig\new_repo\trunk\Code\cmi_structure\MOOG\CCB_INT_HOME\interfaces\
was in my local copy, but the directory I.006 was missing.
I made the cleanup on trunk, and then updated the trunk. All worked fine without any error (the directory \I.006' was created during the update)

So the workaround seems to be: reboot, then cleanup.

Sincerely yours,
Leszek Dabrowski
Received on 2010-12-07 10:44:20 CET

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