Re: svn upgrade fails with failed assertion

dclist <dclist_at_gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to upgrade a very old svn repo but the command is failing.

"working copy" rather than "repo".

>
> % svn upgrade .
> svn:
> /build/buildd/subversion-1.7.5/subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:1518:
> uri_skip_ancestor: Assertion `svn_uri_is_canonical(parent_uri, ((void
> *)0))' failed.
> [1] 3298 abort svn upgrade .
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

1.7.5 is old, a couple of fixes in more recent 1.7.x may be relevant:

 User-visible changes:
  - Client- and server-side bugfixes:
    * fix assertion on urls of the form 'file://./' (r1516806)

  - Client-side bugfixes:
    * upgrade: fix an assertion when used with pre-1.3 wcs (r1530849)

-- 
Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
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