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Re: Code Reverting Itself

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:06:38 -0400

Nico Kadel-Garcia
Email: nico.kadel_at_tufts.edu
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On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:59, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:21:48PM -0400, Kenny Raghunath wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having these strange issues when moving my code onto my production
>> environment. I start out by doing my PHP code within the trunk. When I'm
>> done, I merge my changes into a release branch and then deploy it via
>> Beanstalkapp to my staging environment. When I'm sure that the code is in
>> working order, I then deploy it manually via Beanstalkapp. Once the manual
>> deployment is complete, I verify my changes are on production and continue
>> working inside the trunk. Now, the strange part is that I get a phone call
>> from my client stating that the changes that I've done are not being shown.
>> When I go in and check the code, it's not there anymore. When I do the
>> deployment a second time, the changes are shown to be correct again and
>> this time, it sticks. I'm not sure if this has to do something with
>> Subversion or the fact that I'm using Beanstalkapp to move my code around,
>> but this one is the most recent one.
>> Another instance of my code reverting itself would be when I was doing
>> changes to my trunk and I'm doing micro-commits. I've noticed that the
>> changes that I have been doing were there, but some changes aren't. For
>> example, I was editing fileA.php for a few commits. I wouldn't see the
>> changes I've made two revisions ago, but I'd see changes that I've made at
>> the current revision. It seemed like my code was mixing itself up for some
>> reason. Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> A common problem case is:
>
> - You have a versioned file open in an editor.

Oh, lord, that one is common. It's aggravated
> - You run 'svn update' and the file receives changes from the repository.
> - The editor doesn't notice the file has been changed on disk, so the
> changes brought in by the update are not reflected in the editor window.
> - You save from the editor, overwriting changes brought in during the update.
> - You commit the current state without checking that what you're
> committing is really what you intend to commit, undoing already
> committed changes.
>
> I suspect you're running into some variant of this problem.
> The usual workaround is to get a smarter editor, or close the editor
> before running 'svn update'.
>
> You should review the changes which were actually committed to find out
> what happened. In Subversion 1.7 you can run
> svn log --diff
> on a file which had changes undone accidentally. Then check each diff
> for changes that are unrelated to what was supposed to be committed.
> Maybe that will help you with pinpointing the cause of the problem.
Received on 2012-09-26 15:07:34 CEST

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