Re: checksum error upgrading working copy

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:28:21PM +0200, Daniel Sparing wrote:
> Dear fellow subversion users,
>
> as requested by the error message, i would like to report an error as
> the following:
>
> ---8<---
> In file
> 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.7.0\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\entries.c'
> line 1935: assertion failed (svn_checksum_match(entry_md5_checksum,
> found_md5_checksum))
> ---8<---
>
> what i was doing: I updated my TortoiseSVN client to 1.7.0, then tried
> to upgrade my two working copies to the new 1.7 format, one of them
> succeeded, the other one repeatedly returns the error message above.
>
> daniel

You had a broken 1.6 working copy which cannot be upgraded.
See http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2011-10/0086.shtml

We've been getting this report a lot lately.
Maybe it's time to add this to the FAQ?

I also think we should change the assert into a proper error message.
Received on 2011-10-13 17:03:23 CEST