snv move/commit failed to move a directory

[Nathan Bates <na...@yahoo.com>]

I started from an up-to-date working tree,
then intended to move a subdir upwards.
Straightforward really.

cd a_dir/b_dir
svn move dir ../../dir

The destination dir did NOT exist previously.
svn move didn't complain.

But then svn commit failed (malfunctioned):

Transmitting file data ..svn: Commit failed (details
follow):
svn: Out of date: '[..destDir..]' in transaction
'1186-1'
svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:

Despite the error, everything was up-to-date.
Something bad was done by "svn move" apparently.

And, I noticed in the log, the list of deleted
and added files just looked wrong.  Most files
were omitted, only a subset were listed.

I expected everything in the old dir listed with 'D',
and everything in the new dir listed with 'A'.
But the list was unbalanced and too short.

.......
--This line, and those below, will be ignored--
<files>
.......


Fortunately, just the commit transaction failed
(no repository corruption).

I had to do "svn move" on individually.

I'm using svn 1.4.3 on Ubuntu Linux,
and for several months, never any problems before
(this was the first time I tried moving a whole dir).



       
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Re: snv move/commit failed to move a directory

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

On Aug 31, 2007, at 09:30, Nathan Bates wrote:

> I started from an up-to-date working tree,
> then intended to move a subdir upwards.
> Straightforward really.
>
> cd a_dir/b_dir
> svn move dir ../../dir
>
> The destination dir did NOT exist previously.
> svn move didn't complain.
>
> But then svn commit failed (malfunctioned):
>
> Transmitting file data ..svn: Commit failed (details
> follow):
> svn: Out of date: '[..destDir..]' in transaction
> '1186-1'
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
>
> Despite the error, everything was up-to-date.
> Something bad was done by "svn move" apparently.
>
> And, I noticed in the log, the list of deleted
> and added files just looked wrong.  Most files
> were omitted, only a subset were listed.
>
> I expected everything in the old dir listed with 'D',
> and everything in the new dir listed with 'A'.
> But the list was unbalanced and too short.
>
> .......
> --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
> <files>
> .......
>
>
> Fortunately, just the commit transaction failed
> (no repository corruption).
>
> I had to do "svn move" on individually.
>
> I'm using svn 1.4.3 on Ubuntu Linux,
> and for several months, never any problems before
> (this was the first time I tried moving a whole dir).

Can you show us a reproduction recipe -- a set of steps we can use to  
reproduce the problem on our systems? It should have worked.

Note that I believe it is normal for the list of deleted items and  
added items to be unbalanced. I believe it only shows a D for the  
topmost item deleted, but shows an A for every added item.... or vice  
versa? I forget.

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