from the desk of stinkpot

 if you accidentally delete a directory’s contents that’s under svn-control, you’ll see the following errors when you try and update: >> svn update svn: Directory ‘test01/.svn’ containing working copy admin area is missing the solution: >> cd .. >> rm -rf test01_parent_dir >> svn update

if you’d like to download the latest version of code from a repository, and don’t want your local changes to be incorporated, you can do the following: >> svn update>> svn revert -R ./

while trying to commit an omnigraffle file to an SVN repository, i received the following error message:  A         bootstraps.graffle A         bootstraps.graffle/data.plist ‘vn: Invalid control character ’0x0d’ in path ‘bootstraps.graffle/Icon    the solution:  $ svn propedit svn:ignore Icon   try again to add the OmniGraffle files and things should be […]

if you get the following error when committing code in SVN:  beagle://home/ldavid/src/angst/svn/svn commit -m “deleting trunk” Deleting       trunk svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Out of date: ‘/angst/trunk/trunk’ in transaction ’2f’  just try and run the following:  $ svn update  and then repeat your SVN command. 

my berkeley db just got updated and now svn is unhappy: svn: Commit failed (details follow):  svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /home/ldavid/svn/db: Invalid argument svn: bdb: Program version 4.2 doesn’t match environment version  i found a fix for this problem here.     $ svnadmin create –fs-type bdb newrepos $ cd newrepos/db $ rm […]

let’s say you communicate with your SVN repository via ssh and a non-standard port (not 22). to get svn commands transmitting on let’s say port 123, here’s what you can do:  add the following to ~/.ssh/config: host SVNalias Hostname www.svnhost.com Port 123 now, just call your svn command using the alias: svn import ./local_folder svn+ssh://user@SVNalias/SVN/new_folder […]

i received the following error message while trying to build subversion the other day: /usr/bin/ld: /home/ldavid/src/subversion-1.4.6/neon/src/.libs/libneon.a(ne_request.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol’ can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /home/ldavid/src/subversion-1.4.6/neon/src/.libs/libneon.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/libsvn_ra_dav-1.la] Error 1 the solution i […]

i’ve got a subversion repository on a server that doesn’t have a configured webserver.  consequently, i can’t just point svn to an http:// address.  instead, here’s how i checkout my code: >> svn co svn+ssh://user@server/svn_repository_path/