Re: checksum error upgrading working copy

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> 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

I wonder how the working copy got broken. A bug in 1.6? If so, we
should do as much as possible to work around it.

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

Definitely.

-Hyrum

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