Recovering from crashed commit?

["Talley, Brooks" <br...@frnk.com>]

Last night, I went to commit about 300 new files to a repository.  This
morning, I discovered that the commit had failed; it was just sitting
there about 100-some-odd files into the process. These are all smallish
files (<10k), so it's not like it was still uploading.
 
I went ahead and killed the svn process, and did a cleanup on my working
directory.  However, now I'm in a state where if I try to do a commit,
it complains about some of the added files already existing in the
repository.  And if I do an update of my working copy, it complains
about some of the files that were added already existing in my working
copy.
 
Any ideas on how to recover from this?
 
Thanks
-Brooks

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Re: Recovering from crashed commit?

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Talley, Brooks wrote:

> Last night, I went to commit about 300 new files to a repository.  This
> morning, I discovered that the commit had failed; it was just sitting
> there about 100-some-odd files into the process. These are all smallish
> files (<10k), so it's not like it was still uploading.
>
> I went ahead and killed the svn process, and did a cleanup on my 
> working
> directory.  However, now I'm in a state where if I try to do a commit,
> it complains about some of the added files already existing in the
> repository.  And if I do an update of my working copy, it complains
> about some of the files that were added already existing in my working
> copy.
>
> Any ideas on how to recover from this?
>

This means the commit wholly succeeded in the repository, but your 
working copy was never informed of the fact.  The solution is to 
either:

   1. 'svn revert . -R' your working copy and remove all the resulting 
unversioned files, so that 'svn up' can re-add them, or

   2. just checkout a new working copy.


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Re: Recovering from crashed commit?

[François Beausoleil <fb...@ftml.net>]

On 07/12/2004 13:50, Talley, Brooks wrote:
> Any ideas on how to recover from this?

Hmm, use svnadmin dump -r0:X where X is the last known valid revision. 
Then, reload that into a new repository.

As to why this occured, I have no idea.  If you could preserve the 
busted repository, I'm sure someone will be interested in that data.

Hope that helps,
François