[lug] subversion questions

[Jeffery D. Collins]

A couple of things you might try:
1.  svn cleanup
and/or
2.  check out a clean working copy and copy over source code changes 
from the problematic one.


--
Jeff


D. Stimits wrote:

> I'm trying to use both fedora core 2 and fedora core 4 to talk to a 
> subversion server on fedora core 3 (I have access to fc3 box but not 
> as root). Further, I know that there are other users that are probably 
> using older distros and non-fedora distros.
>
> On FC4 subversion is from rpm subversion-1.2.1-2.1.
> On FC2 subversion is from rpm subversion-1.0.9-1
>
> I'm not sure what versions are being used by other persons.
>
> Anyway, I ran into this situation, and I'm wondering if it can be due 
> to version incompatibilities.
>
> I checked out a working copy of a project. I altered a file, and 
> discovered that svn diff thinks the file is NOT changed. The file 
> cannot be committed, as it considers the file unchanged. Other files 
> (I have not altered all of them to find out), such as Makefile, do in 
> fact properly show changes. But no matter what, svn diff will not show 
> a difference for one of the files (a C++ file). I can even delete that 
> file, and svn will not notice, it still thinks the file is there and 
> still an exact copy.
>
> When I ran svnlook info, I came up with this response:
> svnlook: Expected format '3' of repository; found format '4'
>
> Google shows no listing of this. I'm wondering if anyone here can give 
> me some ideas about whether mixing svn client versions by different 
> users might corrupt a database? Or if the 1.2 clients would fail to 
> work right on 1.1 or earlier servers? Is there anything else that 
> might be done to debug why the working copy of one file always looks 
> in sync to the server?
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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