This has been plaguing me for a week.
SVN keeps telling me that a certain file "does not exist in repository".
Fine. Let's just delete it. Forget about it. Ignore it. Whatever. I don't really care about this file (especially if it continues to fail the nightly check-in).
The most bizarre part? A "restore" will actually RESTORE the file from the repository, so its there (corrupted, maybe?).
...and this has to be the icing on the cake. If I delete the file through Windows Explorer, SVN will RESTORE the file from the repository, and right after that state that it doesn't exist in the repository. WTF?
Does anyone have a clue how to get rid of this?
I've already tried clean-ups, reversions, deletions and anything else imaginable, but this one has me stumped.
Thanks for any tips you might have...
It seems most likely that you have corrupted your local working copy, e.g. by moving folders or some other manipulation that you did with windows explorer but should have done through the TortoiseSVN context menu. The information inside the .svn folders now no longer matches the state of the working copy, which is confusing Subversion.
To fix this, delete the parent folder ("Originals") in your working copy with windows explorer (NOT with TortoiseSVN). Then do a TortoiseSVN "update" at the root of your working copy. This should restore the folder in working order.
Another option is to discard your working copy entirely and do a fresh checkout.
Note that the next release of Subversion (1.7) will reduce the opportunities for corrupting your working copy by centralizing all metadata in a single .svn folder at the root.
I've had similar problems with corrupted working copies. Sometimes the working copies have a lot of pending changes but unable to checkin. To resolve this, I use the following approach (svn 1.7+):
Checkout a fresh working copy into a new directory (path2)
In the fresh working copy, if the offending file is there, delete it if needed.
Commit the fresh working copy
In the fresh working copy, delete everything except the .svn directory
Copy everything from the old working copy except the .svn directory into the fresh working copy.
Commit the fresh working copy again
Delete (or backup) the old working copy
Rename the fresh working to the old working copy (path2 to path)
I had faced a similar problem wherein i had a folder, for example "FolderA" which consistently shows in svn update even though I had deleted it.
It would not even show in the folder list but svn would still recognise it as if it exists.
I followed below steps:
1.Create same folder name for which svn was giving error in the same file location
2.Added it to svn checkout. Since it gave conflict errors, i resolved it using the svn option to resolve.
3.Deleted the folder and committed my svn.
Error was resolved
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I am wondering what happens in SVN when a file is updated directly instead of using SVN? The main reason I am asking is that there was a problem updating the SVN on my machine (windows) when the server (linux) had 2 names that were the same, but different case. I resolved this on the server, but didn't do it through SVN since it won't update correct, but I still get the issue. Do I need to run some kind of command to update it?
Thanks.
EDIT:
I deleted the comflicting file in the working direcotry and wanted to know if doing things directory in the working directory get tracked at all or what needs to be done to resync.
When SVN gets blocked because the repository is more "up to date" than the local checkout, one brain dead foolproof solution is:
Move (or remove) the files that are causing the conflict at the command line (don't use SVN tools to do this, and don't use the GUI if you have tortoise installed).
svn update the repository, which will restore the current copy of the files from the subversion server.
Decide what to do with your cached copies of the old files. Either manually merge them back into the repository, discard them, or remake the changes in the new svn managed files (depending on your needs).
Note that if you move the files into a directory using tortoise, make sure that you move it into a directory that's not associated with ANY SVN project. It's not fun trying to undo the helpful changes tortoise does in thinking your wanting a SVN move to accompany the file system move.
There is no need to run any special commands. If you updated the sources, the next time you will run svn update subversion will seamlessly merge the changes and you will get an uptodate working copy.
If you changed some files, they will appear modified or conflicted depending on the changes made by you and other users.
As described in the header, I lost a hard drive that had a tortoise repository on it, but I managed to recover the files folder from that drive, unfortunately without the repository.
In the meantime the recovered folder now has a "!" icon on it, and I can't do anything with it (clean up, relocate, check in) since it says that it can't find its old repository.
Is there any way to move it to an existing repository on the new drive, or even just create a new one?
Thanks!
Cleanup doesn't require access to the repository. If even cleanup fails, then your backup wasn't complete or completely successful because the working copy is broken.
If you lost the repository, then you have to start from scratch (now you know why backups are important). Since you still have the files from your working copy, copy them to the new drive, then remove all hidden .svn folders. After that, you can import those files in a fresh repository.
In subversion I'm trying to commit a project but running into an issue.
The error I get is
Illegal repository URL ''
How come I can run update, but commit on the same tree shows that?
Try this, it worked for me:
Create a folder.
Right button over folder and create repo here.
When pop up appears select create folder structure and then open folder.
When repository browser appears you see tags branch etc, right button again and create folder but now with tool tortoise.
Update you file to folder.
After some hunting around it seems that a few other people have experienced some sort of local corruption at the top level their checked out project directory which is where I was committing from.
I followed the same procedure that was used to solve those cases which is to back up the sources. Check out the project again. Finally copy the changed files back over the freshly checked out copy. Check it builds correctly. And then commit that.
It seemed to solve it for me.
After I add and commit changes from my VS2008 solution folder, I have noticed that the the exclamation mark on all files and folders changes to a checkmark after the commit is completed to SVN repo, except for the file which is in the same folder as the folder. Even after I hit Refresh or perform SVN update and then Refresh, the exclamation mark stays. Is the problem between the chair and the keyboard or a known SVN issue. Please note that I am using Tortoise SVN 1.6.9 on Windows. Thanks in advance.
Firstly, you should notbe adding *.suo files to source control. It is bad practise, especially if you have multiple users working on the same project or solution. You should add all *.suo files to the SVN ignore list.
That said, the problem you describe is fairly common with Tortoise SVN and SVN in general, in my experience. Sometimes Tortoise SVN / SVN can get a bit confused, the .svn meta-data folders can get out of sync with the server copy, or even corrupted. To solve this problem, your working copy needs to be 'Cleaned up'.
Try the following:
Select the folder of your working copy in Windows Explorer, then
Right Click - Tortoise SVN - Clean Up.
If this doesn't work immediately, try multiple combinations of updating your working copy, then cleaning it, then updating again. This usually fixes the problem.
Read here and here for more.
The problem is also quite often with Windows/Windows Explorer itself. Refreshing of the SVN status icons doesn't always happen immediately. I believe it is a problem/limitation of the combination of Windows Explorer and the Tortoise SVN shell plugin.
Please do this
Directory ->Right Click->Check For Modifications -> On Modifications(select all)->Right click -> "Commit"-> In the bottom pane click "Refresh". Now it should have removed that warning sign.
I cannot figure out why I get this error during check-in. I checked in successful only a few hours ago so not sure why now it's complaining
Error: Commit failed (details follow):
Error: Checksum mismatch for
Error: 'C:\sss\sss\trunk\xxxx\.svn\text-base\Header.ascx.svn-base'; expected:
Error: '3cee96f580409a1711a47541a07860dd', actual: 'a5fc0f8819b88bf32ab38d4c9a6b0654'
Error: Try a 'Cleanup'. If that doesn't work you need to do a fresh checkout.
I got latest and also performed a clean-up which said successful so not sure what else to do.
Something has gotten out of sync or has become corrupt, and because it's in your .svn BASE directory, unless you are confident tinkering with this, you're probably better off deleting the parent of the .svn directory and then perform an update. Of course, take a backup or see if an export works before doing this, so you don't lose any changes.
FWIW, I get this sometimes with our library references where Visual Studio seems to keep a lock on some files (even though it's not compiling) and won't let me update them. I believe this is related to the xml documentation files.
Note: Subversion 1.7+ implements a new working copy approach which centralises the meta data, and it now has a single .svn directory at the root of your working copy. Your best bet is a cleanup, failing that a fresh checkout into another directory and export or file copy the corrupted working copy except for the .svn directory, over to the fresh checkout, and commit any local changes.
Looks like one of your SVN files is corrupt. First, check-in everything that can safely be checked in, and make sure to backup everything. Then fix the offending file - usually this involves deleting it from your repository. This should be okay if you're checking in a new version anyway.
I received a similar error after our project repository was moved to a new server. Try reverting your file and reapplying your changes.
I had same problem after googling for some help found articles that suggested to override the checksum in the .svn\entries file. But in that file the checksum was actually as the the expected one in the error message.
To fix the problem, I navigated to .svn\text-base dir of problem file's directory and found out that there's a copy of the file i was trying to check in changes for. I opened that file in Notepad++ and replaced it's content with content of the file to be commited and i was able to commit afterwards.
But just in case, make a backup copy of the .svn\text-base file.
I think this happened because i did an svn update before commit because it complained that my version is outdated. Anyway, it's fixed for me and hope my solution helps someone else too.
With Tortoise SVN, I choose to delete the file in Repo Browser.
First back up the problem file. and use Repo Browser delete the problem file in it, then update local folder so the file in local folder is deleted. Then copy back the backup file and Add > Commit, then I can update successfully.
The disadvantage of this method is the history of this file will be removed.
Also see another post.