Comments on: Is SVN really atomic?

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:02:03 +0000

Myron,

I have deleted that project, so I can’t do that now. But I am sure, those files were in svn.

By: Myron A. Semack

Myron A. Semack — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:09:14 +0000

Were the files actually in the repository? Could you do an ‘svn ls URL’ and see them?

The commit may have succeeded, but the working copy revision bump may have failed.

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:11:52 +0000

Myron,

I did the fresh checkout,when commit failed and found some of those files physically there.

so what could the cleanup do?

By: Myron A. Semack

Myron A. Semack — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:00:23 +0000

Repository commits are atomic. However, it is possible for the working copy to get screwed up (local filesystem operations are not atomic). Run ‘svn cleanup’ in your working copy.

By: gaurav

gaurav — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:44:31 +0000

i faced this today

By: stephen sykes

stephen sykes — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:37:25 +0000

Yes, svn can get into a mess.

Does the error message look anything like “svn: Working copy path ‘…’ does not exist in repository”? See here

http://www.stephensykes.com/blog_perm.html?135

By: Seth Ladd

Seth Ladd — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:56:45 +0000

Yes, this has happened to me. Weird.