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Re: 1.6 to 1.7 migration : Subversion Exception when doing "SVN Upgrade Working Copy"

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:59:08 +0200

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:53:02AM +0200, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:42:13 +0000, Christophe Franco wrote:
> | You had a broken working copy that can't be upgraded.
> | http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2011-10/0086.shtml
>
> ...practically meaning that the WC 1.6->1.7 conversion code can't really deal with
> what 1.6 typically leaves behind in the sandbox. (This is documented but yet the
> cleanup does not always seem to be enough...)
>

The problem is that we have no idea why all these 1.6 working copies
were broken in the first place. If we knew why, we could try to make
the upgrade code work around it.

It could be a missing .svn folder, or corrupted or changed files in
.svn/text-base/, or some other problem.
Received on 2011-10-17 11:59:46 CEST

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