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'svn upgrade' fails with "svn: E155016: Insufficient NODES rows"

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:30:41 +0200

When 'svn upgrade'-ing a 1.6 working copy with 1.7.4 (SlikSVN), I get
the following error:

[[[
C:\Temp\sourcesTest>svn upgrade
Upgraded '.'
Upgraded 'uz'
...
svn: E155016: Insufficient NODES rows for
'C:\Temp\sourcesTest\.svn\tmp\wcng\uz\mock\TraceElement.java'
]]]

I ran cleanup before the upgrade, and 'svn-1.6 status' shows nothing.

Turns out this was reported before on the TortoiseSVN users-list [1],
but never escalated upstream.

The person who posted that message has also found a way to fix it.
It's apparently caused by the presence of a .svn-revert file in the
.svn/props-base directory corresponding to the problem file. Indeed,
also in my case, such a file is present:

[[[
C:\Temp\sourcesTest>dir uz\mock\.svn\prop-base
...
27-04-2011 12:05 81 TraceElement.java.svn-revert
]]]

After removing this file, and running 'svn-1.6 cleanup' again to clean
up remaining locks after the failed upgrade, I can now succesfully
'svn upgrade'.

BTW, this error has also been filed in the svn issue tracker [2], but
I'm not sure if it's exactly the same (reporter says he gets it after
a clean checkout ... I'm not seeing this; but that might also be a
misunderstanding, there is no discussion linked from the issue).

Now:
- Has anyone run into this before?
- What is a .svn-revert file in .svn/props-base? I have no idea how to
reproduce such metadata, but maybe if one knows the purpose of such a
file, one can come up with a scenario on how to recreate it.
- Following from the previous question: is this a real 1.6 corruption
that can't be upgraded, or is this a legitimate 1.6-situation, one
which the 1.7 upgrade should/could support? In case of the latter:
let's file an issue and get this fixed in the 'upgrade' code so
there's one less edge case users can run into when upgrading.

[1] http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=2854418
[2] http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4043
("Insufficient NODES rows" on svn upgrade)

-- 
Johan
Received on 2012-04-17 13:31:35 CEST

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