"Out of date" error

[ky...@panix.com]

Greetings.

I'm getting the following error:

  % svn st
   M     .
  % svn ci . -m ''
  Sending        .
  svn: Commit failed (details follow):
  svn: Out of date: '/MyProject/trunk' in transaction '18-1'

I have *no idea* what this means; I'm the only person contributing
code to this project, and the '.' in question is the only working
directory that has ever existed for the project.  (For that matter, I
don't know what the "M ."  output of "svn status" is all about
either.)

More generally, where can I find a diagnostics-oriented description of
Subversion error messages?  (This is certainly not the first time that
svn has emitted utterly incomprehensible error messages.)

Thanks!

kj

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Re: "Out of date" error

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On 10/7/05, kynn@panix.com <ky...@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I'm getting the following error:
>
>   % svn st
>    M     .
>   % svn ci . -m ''
>   Sending        .
>   svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>   svn: Out of date: '/MyProject/trunk' in transaction '18-1'
>
> I have *no idea* what this means; I'm the only person contributing
> code to this project, and the '.' in question is the only working
> directory that has ever existed for the project.  (For that matter, I
> don't know what the "M ."  output of "svn status" is all about
> either.)

The "M" in status for the working directory means that the you've
changed the properties of that directory.  It's failing to commit
because your working copy's version of the directory is out of date
relative to the one in the repository and you can't commit a change to
an out of date directory.

There is some info in the FAQ about this:
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#wc-out-of-date and it points to
a section in the book talking about it.

It's likely that you're out of date because of previous commits you've
made, it's nothing to be worried about, and a simple svn update will
allow you to commit your change.

-garrett

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