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Help with 'svn: 'XXXXXXXXX' has no ancestry information' type error
Hi --
I'm having problems where I (perhaps inadvisably) blew away an .svn directory
and now, no matter how fresh a start I try to take with my workspace, cannot do
a commit, getting the error mentioned in the subject line.
It seems there was some discussion two months ago about it here:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2007-04/0039.shtml
but there was no response (and unfortunately what seemed to work for that author
does not work for me).
There was also this thread in 2006:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-08/0104.shtml
but as far as I can tell there was no followup or resolution posted.
I can't seem to understand what is happening or how to fix it. Can anyone help?
jon
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Re: Help with 'svn: 'XXXXXXXXX' has no ancestry information' type error
Posted by Jonathan Gold <de...@samizdatdigital.com>.
Steve --
Thanks for the tips. I'd tried that (and some variations) yesterday, but to no
avail. Your suggestions were helpful anyway, since it got me to try a few more
things.
The ultimate culprit, it seems, was that there was also an svn checkout in an
ancestor directory to the one in which I was having problems, and that parent
and my current dir were having naming-conflict issues. Generally, a pretty
stupid thing to do.
Nevertheless, if anyone from the svn-dev team is reading these things, I'd lobby
for more documentation or information to go along with this otherwise cryptic
error.
jon
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 07:46:32AM -0400, Steve Bakke wrote:
>
>
> On 6/7/07 1:47 PM, "Jonathan Gold" <de...@samizdatdigital.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi --
> >
> > I'm having problems where I (perhaps inadvisably) blew away an .svn directory
> > and now, no matter how fresh a start I try to take with my workspace, cannot
> > do
> > a commit, getting the error mentioned in the subject line.
> >
> > It seems there was some discussion two months ago about it here:
> >
> > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2007-04/0039.shtml
> >
> > but there was no response (and unfortunately what seemed to work for that
> > author
> > does not work for me).
> >
> > There was also this thread in 2006:
> >
> > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-08/0104.shtml
> >
> > but as far as I can tell there was no followup or resolution posted.
> >
> > I can't seem to understand what is happening or how to fix it. Can anyone
> > help?
> >
> > jon
> >
> We've had to deal with issues relating to a tool which is unaware of
> subversion and regularly deletes and re-creates directories that are under
> revision control. This causes them to become obstructed, so our script
> wrapper is set up to automatically fix up the metadata.
>
> Our solution is to do a fresh checkout off to the side and then replace the
> missing/corrupted .svn in the appropriate directory. The other method is to
> do a fresh checkout and then move the contents of your old working copy to
> the new one.
>
> Either way, you should be able to checkin once you are done with that.
>
> -steve
>
>
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Re: Help with 'svn: 'XXXXXXXXX' has no ancestry information'
type error
Posted by Steve Bakke <st...@amd.com>.
On 6/7/07 1:47 PM, "Jonathan Gold" <de...@samizdatdigital.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm having problems where I (perhaps inadvisably) blew away an .svn directory
> and now, no matter how fresh a start I try to take with my workspace, cannot
> do
> a commit, getting the error mentioned in the subject line.
>
> It seems there was some discussion two months ago about it here:
>
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2007-04/0039.shtml
>
> but there was no response (and unfortunately what seemed to work for that
> author
> does not work for me).
>
> There was also this thread in 2006:
>
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-08/0104.shtml
>
> but as far as I can tell there was no followup or resolution posted.
>
> I can't seem to understand what is happening or how to fix it. Can anyone
> help?
>
> jon
>
We've had to deal with issues relating to a tool which is unaware of
subversion and regularly deletes and re-creates directories that are under
revision control. This causes them to become obstructed, so our script
wrapper is set up to automatically fix up the metadata.
Our solution is to do a fresh checkout off to the side and then replace the
missing/corrupted .svn in the appropriate directory. The other method is to
do a fresh checkout and then move the contents of your old working copy to
the new one.
Either way, you should be able to checkin once you are done with that.
-steve
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