You requested me to send you

[Mike Bailey <ba...@opttek.com>]

Hi,

I got a Subversion Exception with the message "Subversion encountered a serious problem.  Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list."  This sounds very simple, but I'm now 5 pages into the explanations on the Apache site, where it says most reports will be thrown away, they have to be properly validated (huh?) and we should read the entire site documentation and community process before continuing.

I did my best to search for similar issues, but it's not really clear if my search was complete.  Anyway, here's what I got, you asked me to send it, so even if you'll probably throw it away I guess I'll send it.

Trying to revert a directory, I got:

In file
'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.6.8\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\tree-conflicts.c'
line 570: assertion failed (strcmp(dir_path, svn_path_dirname(victim path, pool)) == 0)

Hopefully you can make use of it, since you can't cut and paste the information, and I had to type all that by hand!

Thanks,
Michael

Re: You requested me to send you

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:34, Mike Bailey wrote:

> Thank you!  Are you saying this bug is fixed, or just it's not acceptable to file a bug report until you've upgraded?  I am not in charge of Subversion upgrades so that would be the end of the road for me.

I don't use Windows and have not seen this error before, nor could I find mention of it with a quick Google search. But because there have been many release since the version you're using, it is possible it was already fixed, so testing with a newer version might be advantageous.

RE: You requested me to send you

[Mike Bailey <ba...@opttek.com>]

Thank you!  Are you saying this bug is fixed, or just it's not acceptable to file a bug report until you've upgraded?  I am not in charge of Subversion upgrades so that would be the end of the road for me.

Thanks,
Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2012a@ryandesign.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:34 PM
To: Mike Bailey
Cc: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: You requested me to send you 


On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:23, Mike Bailey wrote:

> Trying to revert a directory, I got:
>  
> In file
> 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.6.8\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\tree-conflicts.c'
> line 570: assertion failed (strcmp(dir_path, svn_path_dirname(victim path, pool)) == 0

Does this happen any time you revert any directory? Or only sometimes? Or only some directories?


> Hopefully you can make use of it, since you can't cut and paste the information, and I had to type all that by hand!

It's my understanding that you *can* copy the information in such a window by pressing Ctrl-C. Newer versions of TortoiseSVN specifically mention this.

This leads to a suggestion: Have you tried a newer version of TortoiseSVN?

RE: You requested me to send you

["Cooke, Mark" <ma...@siemens.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2012a@ryandesign.com] 
> Sent: 25 January 2012 20:34
> To: Mike Bailey
> Cc: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: You requested me to send you 
> 
> 
> On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:23, Mike Bailey wrote:
> 
> > Trying to revert a directory, I got:
> >  
> > In file
> > 
> > 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.6.8\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\tree-conflicts.c'
> > line 570: assertion failed (strcmp(dir_path, 
> > svn_path_dirname(victim path, pool)) == 0
> 
> Does this happen any time you revert any directory? Or only 
> sometimes? Or only some directories?
> 
> 
> > Hopefully you can make use of it, since you can't cut and 
> paste the information, and I had to type all that by hand!
> 
> It's my understanding that you *can* copy the information in 
> such a window by pressing Ctrl-C. Newer versions of 
> TortoiseSVN specifically mention this.
> 
> This leads to a suggestion: Have you tried a newer version of 
> TortoiseSVN?

Indeed, TSvn 1.6.8 was released April 2010 and the 1.6 line ended at 1.6.16 in June 2011...  The newer 1.7 line is at 1.7.4 from earlier this month (but make sure you read the release docs before moving from 1.6 to 1.7!).

~ mark c

P.S. if upgrading from 1.6.8 you'll need to run the installer twice, see http://tortoisesvn.net/majorupgrade.html

Re: You requested me to send you

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:23, Mike Bailey wrote:

> Trying to revert a directory, I got:
>  
> In file
> ‘D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.6.8\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\tree-conflicts.c’
> line 570: assertion failed (strcmp(dir_path, svn_path_dirname(victim path, pool)) == 0

Does this happen any time you revert any directory? Or only sometimes? Or only some directories?


> Hopefully you can make use of it, since you can’t cut and paste the information, and I had to type all that by hand!

It's my understanding that you *can* copy the information in such a window by pressing Ctrl-C. Newer versions of TortoiseSVN specifically mention this.

This leads to a suggestion: Have you tried a newer version of TortoiseSVN?