Recipe to reproduce "svn: Working copy path '...' does not exist in repository." problem

[Peter McCurdy <pe...@gmail.com>]

I recently ran into a problem where, when doing a merge, I got my working
copy into a state where it couldn't commit, and doing "svn up" said "svn:
Working copy path '...' does not exist in repository."  Doing a bit of
research, I found a link to a bug report on this list from last November [1]
where no recipe was found for how to reproduce the problem.

Fortunately, I was able to recreate how the problem occurred for us with a
relatively simple recipe using Subversion 1.2.1 on Linux.  It could maybe be
simplified a little bit, but this is as small as I've been able to get it,
and is a pretty good reproduction of what actually happened to us:

~$ svnadmin create /tmp/svn
~$ svn co file:///tmp/svn wc
Checked out revision 0.
~$ svn mkdir wc/trunk wc/branch1
A         wc/trunk
A         wc/branch1
~$ touch wc/trunk/foo wc/branch1/foo
~$ svn add wc/trunk/foo wc/branch1/foo
A         wc/trunk/foo
A         wc/branch1/foo
~$ svn ci -m "Initial checkin" wc
Adding         wc/branch1
Adding         wc/branch1/foo
Adding         wc/trunk
Adding         wc/trunk/foo
Transmitting file data ..
Committed revision 1.
~$ svn mv wc/trunk/foo wc/trunk/bar
A         wc/trunk/bar
D         wc/trunk/foo
~$ echo "new file" > wc/trunk/foo
~$ svn add wc/trunk/foo
A         wc/trunk/foo
~$ svn ci -m "Here comes trouble" wc
Adding         wc/trunk/bar
Replacing      wc/trunk/foo
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 2.
~$ svn merge file:///tmp/svn/trunk -r1:2 wc/branch1
D    wc/branch1/foo
A    wc/branch1/foo
A    wc/branch1/bar
~$ svn up wc
svn: Working copy path 'branch1/foo' does not exist in repository
~$

At this point, the only way I found to repair my working copy was to delete
the directory containing the problematic file, check it out again, "svn mv"
the offending file out of the way and check that in, then re-do my merge.

I hope this helps.  If this issue has been found in the meantime, at least I
can help other people find it via Google :)

1: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=109132

Re: Recipe to reproduce "svn: Working copy path '...' does not exist in repository." problem

[Philip Martin <ph...@codematters.co.uk>]

"Peter McCurdy" <pe...@gmail.com> writes:

>    I recently ran into a problem where, when doing a merge, I got my
>    working copy into a state where it couldn't commit, and doing "svn up"
>    said "svn: Working copy path '...' does not exist in repository."
>    Doing a bit of research, I found a link to a bug report on this list
>    from last November [1] where no recipe was found for how to reproduce
>    the problem.
>    Fortunately, I was able to recreate how the problem occurred for us
>    with a relatively simple recipe using Subversion 1.2.1 on Linux.  It
>    could maybe be simplified a little bit, but this is as small as I've
>    been able to get it, and is a pretty good reproduction of what
>    actually happened to us:
>    ~$ svnadmin create /tmp/svn
>    ~$ svn co file:///tmp/svn wc
>    Checked out revision 0.
>    ~$ svn mkdir wc/trunk wc/branch1
>    A         wc/trunk
>    A         wc/branch1
>    ~$ touch wc/trunk/foo wc/branch1/foo
>    ~$ svn add wc/trunk/foo wc/branch1/foo
>    A         wc/trunk/foo
>    A         wc/branch1/foo
>    ~$ svn ci -m "Initial checkin" wc
>    Adding         wc/branch1
>    Adding         wc/branch1/foo
>    Adding         wc/trunk
>    Adding         wc/trunk/foo
>    Transmitting file data ..
>    Committed revision 1.
>    ~$ svn mv wc/trunk/foo wc/trunk/bar
>    A         wc/trunk/bar
>    D         wc/trunk/foo
>    ~$ echo "new file" > wc/trunk/foo
>    ~$ svn add wc/trunk/foo
>    A         wc/trunk/foo
>    ~$ svn ci -m "Here comes trouble" wc
>    Adding         wc/trunk/bar
>    Replacing      wc/trunk/foo
>    Transmitting file data .
>    Committed revision 2.
>    ~$ svn merge file:///tmp/svn/trunk -r1:2 wc/branch1
>    D    wc/branch1/foo
>    A    wc/branch1/foo
>    A    wc/branch1/bar
>    ~$ svn up wc
>    svn: Working copy path 'branch1/foo' does not exist in repository
>    ~$

Thanks for taking the time to reproduce this.  It looks like it has
already been fixed (probably the new replacement code) using trunk I
get:

$ svn merge file://`pwd`/repo/trunk -r1:2 wc/branch1
D    wc/branch1/foo
A    wc/branch1/foo
A    wc/branch1/bar
$ svn st -v wc
                2        2 pm           wc
                2        2 pm           wc/trunk
                2        2 pm           wc/trunk/foo
                2        2 pm           wc/trunk/bar
                2        1 pm           wc/branch1
R  +            -        2 pm           wc/branch1/foo
A  +            -        2 pm           wc/branch1/bar
$ svn up wc
At revision 2.

-- 
Philip Martin

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