Re: What does "Revision X doesn't match existing revision Y" mean?

Brett Cook wrote on Fri, 21 Jun 2019 04:57 +00:00:
> I’m doing a checkout using ‘svn co URL DEST’ and get an error that says
> “Revision X doesn't match existing revision Y in DEST”.

For future searchers' benefit, the error code should have been E155000.
(more below)

> I’ve tried figuring out what causes this and why an old version of SVN
> (svn, version 1.6.17 (r1128011) compiled Jun 2 2011, 23:35:08) works
> and a newer version (svn, version 1.11.1 (r1850623) compiled Jan 9
> 2019, 19:28:50 on x86-microsoft-windows) does not, but have not been
> successful.
>
> When searching for the answer, I get a lot of information about this
> happening during a merge, but have yet to find anything related to
> checkout.
>
>
> I’m trying to find an explanation of a) what causes this and b) if
> there are ways to have SVN not worry about it.

It's a client-side error. I think it means working-copy recorded data
doesn't match data newly received over the wire, but I haven't had time
to confirm this.

The relevant client-side library was rewritten between 1.6 and 1.7,
which would explain why 1.6 and 1.11 behave differently.

Note that 1.11.x is no longer supported; only 1.9.x/1.10.x/1.12.x are
currently supported.

In 1.12.x (and probably 1.11.x too) the error should only be raised if
DEST existed and was a working copy before the 'svn co', so try specifying
a new or empty directory as DEST instead.

Cheers,

Daniel
Received on 2019-06-21 12:00:27 CEST