Re: Help! Subversion Exception!

sebb wrote on Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 16:57:14 +0100:
> On 18 October 2011 16:33, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > Les Mikesell wrote on Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:18:24 -0500:
> >> I think there is a bigger question regarding why there are so many
> >> corrupt 1.6 workspaces around that nothing so far had noticed.  Should
> >> people be concerned about that even if they aren't upgrading yet?
> >> How can you tell if a workspace is corrupt?
> > (you mean "working copy")
> >
> > Make a copy of it and upgrade that.
> >
> > Or, failing that, check all md5's in the working copy.  But I expect the
> > former option is far simpler for most people.
>
> By checking MD5, do you mean calculate and compare the hashes for the
> working copy and corresponding base files?

Yes, svn_wc_entry_t->checksum.

> If so, is that something that the upgrade process could (should) do
> before making any changes?
>

Upgrade already does that...

> That would also be useful as a stand-alone tool.

Could be. If I were to hack it I'd base it either on libsvn_wc's
entry-reading APIs or on change-svn-wc-format.py.
Received on 2011-10-18 18:11:00 CEST