Re: subversion exception on subversion repository viewer

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:42 PM Brian Thomas <brian.thomas_at_kutana.co.uk>
wrote:

> We're long time svn users. We recently upgraded from
>
> C:\Windows\System32>svn --version
> svn, version 1.9.5-SlikSvn (SlikSvn/1.9.5)
> compiled Dec 2 2016, 22:16:15 on x86_64-microsoft-windows6.2.9200
>
> to this:
>
> C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN>bin\svn --version
> svn, version 1.13.0 (r1867053)
> compiled Oct 31 2019, 20:41:49 on x86-microsoft-windows
>
> Now when I open the TortoiseSVN repository browser and select a project
> folder in the left-hand pane, then r-click a file in the right-hand pane
> and select Edit then the selected file opens in Notepad.
> But on the second attempt—if I r-click a *different* file in the same
> folder in the right-hand pane I get a dialog containing this text:
>
> Error: 'C:\Users\thomasb\AppData\Local\Temp' is already a working copy for
> a different
> Error: URL
> Completed!:
>
>
> and then I get this Exception dialog:
>
> ---------------------------
> Subversion Exception!
> ---------------------------
> Subversion encountered a serious problem.
> Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list
> with as much information as possible about what
> you were trying to do.
> But please first search the mailing list archives for the error message
> to avoid reporting the same problem repeatedly.
> You can find the mailing list archives at
> https://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
>
> Subversion reported the following
> (you can copy the content of this dialog
> to the clipboard using Ctrl-C):
>
> In file
>
> 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.13.1\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.c'
> line 10238: assertion failed (svn_dirent_is_absolute(local_abspath))
> ---------------------------
> OK
> ---------------------------
>
>
> This defect has been reported already (in 2018!) but there's been no fix
> as far as I can tell.
>
>
> This is a regression since 1.9 where this error did not occur.
>

Hi Brian,

Heh, this error was just reported twice on this mailinglist two days ago
:-). As I replied already on those other posts:

This is a bug specific to TortoiseSVN (Windows GUI for SVN, a separate
project from the Subversion project, with its own mailinglists:
https://tortoisesvn.net/community.html).

The bug seems to be fixed already:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/tortoisesvn/_wyo1iQIc1c/HAybYPkjCQAJ

But unfortunately it's not yet part of a new TSVN release (1.13.1 is
currently the latest one). Perhaps you could use a nightly build of
TortoiseSVN if you need this fix (scroll to the bottom of
https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html).

-- 
Johan