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RE: svn 1.7: how to recover from a lost pristine file

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:27:53 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcorvel_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: woensdag 28 maart 2012 15:47
> To: Philip Martin
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: svn 1.7: how to recover from a lost pristine file
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Philip Martin
> > <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> >> Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> For some reason, I lost a pristine file [*] in a 1.7 working copy. I'm
> >>> trying to recover from this without having to throw away my entire
> >>> working copy. So far I'm unsuccessful. Any help is appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> svn-1.7 is SlikSVN 1.7.4 (On Windows 7, 64bit):
> >>> [[[
> >>> C:\Work\WC-root>svn-1.7 update -r0 the\file\with\missing\pristine.java
> >>> svn: E155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if it
> >>> was interrupted
> >>>
> >>> C:\Work\WC-root>svn-1.7 cleanup the\file\with\missing
> >>> svn: E155004: Working copy 'C:\Work\WC-root\the\file\with\missing'
> locked.
> >>> svn: E155004: 'C:\Work\WC-root' is already locked.
> >>> svn: E155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if it
> >>> was interrupted
> >>> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
details)
> >>>
> >>> C:\Work\WC-root>svn-1.7 cleanup
> >>> svn: E720002: Can't open file
> >>> 'C:\Work\WC-
> root\.svn\pristine\6d\6d6e0892990e945b03a15b8e518dbef26848dc75.svn-
> base':
> >>> The system cannot find the file specified.
> >>> ]]]
> >>>
> >>> (the fact that the working copy is locked to begin with, was because a
> >>> normal 'svn update' failed because of the missing pristine, with "svn:
> >>> E155004: There are unfinished work items in 'C:\Work\WC-root'; run
> >>> 'svn cleanup' first.", which is why I first found out about the
> >>> problem)
> >>>
> >>> Anything I can do to investigate further?
> >>
> >> Use the sqlite3 utility
> >>
> >>  sqlite3 .svn/wc.db "select * from work_queue"
> >
> > Thanks for your help, Philip.
> >
> > $ sqlite3 .svn/wc.db "select * from work_queue"
> > 1|(file-install trunk/rootdir/the/file/with/missing/pristine.java 1 0 1
1)
> >
> >> These may show something:
> >>
> >>  sqlite3 wc/.svn/wc.db "select * from nodes where local_relpath =
> '/the/file/with/missing/pristine.java'"
> >>
> >>  sqlite3 wc/.svn/wc.db "select * from nodes where checksum like
> '%6d6e0892990e945b03a15b8e518dbef26848dc75'"
> >
> > Both of the above show the same:
> >
>
1|the/file/with/missing/pristine.java|0|the/file/with/missing|1|trunk/rootdi
r/t
> he/file/with/missing/pristine.java|176219|normal|||file|(svn:eol-style
> >
> native)||$sha1$6d6e0892990e945b03a15b8e518dbef26848dc75||175563|1332
> 375850493000|username|56722|1332709446087164||
> >
> >>  sqlite3 wc/.svn/wc.db "select * from pristine where checksum like
> '%6d6e0892990e945b03a15b8e518dbef26848dc75'"
> >
> > That shows nothing.
> >
> >> Depending on what the work_queue shows you may be able to further
> >> corrupt your working copy and then recover by doing this:
> >>
> >>  sqlite .svn/wc.db "delete from work_queue"
> >>  svn up -r0 file
> >>
> >> IMPORTANT! Deleting the work_queue does generally make the working
> copy
> >> invalid, it is then up to you to ensure it returns to a valid state.
>
> Hm, no luck:
>
> [[[
> $ sqlite3 .svn/wc.db "delete from work_queue"
>
> $ sqlite3 .svn/wc.db "select * from work_queue"
> <nothing>
>
> C:\Work\WC-root>svn-1.7 up -r0 the/file/with/missing/pristine.java
> svn: E155004: Working copy 'C:\Work\WC-root\the\file\with\missing' locked.
> svn: E155004: 'C:\Work\WC-root' is already locked.
> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
details)
>
> C:\Work\WC-root>svn-1.7 cleanup
>
> <yay! this time 'svn cleanup' completes, let's try again>
>
> C:\Work\WC-root>svn-1.7 up -r0 the/file/with/missing/pristine.java
> Updating 'the\file\with\missing\pristine.java':
> svn: E720002: Can't open file
> 'C:\Work\WC-
> root\.svn\pristine\6d\6d6e0892990e945b03a15b8e518dbef26848dc75.svn-
> base':
> The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> <at this point, a work-queue item has been created again>
>
> $ sqlite3 .svn/wc.db "select * from work_queue"
> 2|(file-install the/file/with/missing/pristine.java 1 0 1 1)
>
> ]]]
>
> Any other suggestions?

Maybe 'svn up --set-depth exclude X' instead of -r0.
And then a 'svn up X'

        Bert
Received on 2012-03-28 16:28:36 CEST

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