Also note that svn update would merge your changes with the head revision potentially leading to merge conflicts which you would have to manually resolve.
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How to force commit with TortoiseSVN
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Short version: Can I force a commit "no questions asked"? How? Would that still allow me to access / compare the previous versions?
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I'm currently working on a project with lots of files and updates... so I must have some version control program. Some years ago I used CVS, but it seems that now Subversion is the route to go. Running on XP, I selected TortoiseSVN as a client since it also seems the route to go.
So I have installed TortoiseSVN on my local machine, the goal being to track changes of the local versions of some projects.
NOTE:
1 - I am the single user of the machine, and for all the files (I will also import some files and place them in the version control)
2 - it seems that SVN is not installed as an a program, just subversion. [Maybe THAT is the problem?]
I have painfully made my way thru the doc (it somehow assumes that you already know Subversion... which I didn't) and placed 3 different tress/ projects in the repository. What I did was to create the repository, export the directory tree, delete the files from the disk, checkout the project , which repopulated the directory tree with all the needed.svn dir.
Of course I am working on the project file. And in fact, since that was my goal, I transferred files by FTP from my remote server where the project is going to run.
After that, I wanted to commit the changes on my local machine.
This has worked fine on most files and directories, but there are some strange situation I do not understand how I could solve them.
The most frequent/ significant messages I get in my various attempts to circumvent the problem are:
Command : Commit
Modified : D:\XXXX\var
Error : Failure for propagation (commit), details :
Error : Directory '/un-carat/var' is obsolete
Error : You have to update your working copy first.
Finished! :
13/01/2009 - 13:45:50
Command : Commit
Error : The working copy of 'D:\XXXX\downloader\pearli
Error : Please execute the "Cleanup" command.
Finished! :
Can I force a commit "no questions asked"? How? Would that still allow me to access / compare the previous versions?
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1 - Update did the trick. It was safe because the only changes that remained where on the directory itself, not on the file it contains. THX A LOT
2 - The cleanup thing did NOT work though. No easy way to make a text capture of the error message, so I attach a screen capture. My version is in French.
"Dans le répertoire" means "in the directory"
"Erreur en exécutant la command" means "Error while processing the command"
"La copie de travail" -> the working copy
"est verrouillée" -> is locked
When I try to unlock the \data which is said to be locked, I get the error message "There's nothing to unlock. No file has a lock on this working copy"
B-((
- TortoiseSVN.jpg
- 59 KB
screen capture of an error message with the "cleanup" command (TortoiseSVN, French)
No directory is locked.
However, the display evidences that SVN "ignores" some directories.
I believe most of this dirs were there earlier.
Then I asked that the directory "cache" should not be synced.
This apparently worked... but I probably did something else so thee are more directories ignored... And when I try to "add" the directories, I'm told there is nothing to add since all the files are all present in the repository...
- TortoiseSVN-1.jpg
- 228 KB
screen capture - sync problem with TortoiseSVN
OK, thx a lot. This placed me on the right path. Doing it tooks some time..
What I did in fact, since I did not have a clean copy of the files
- copy the files to some other place, then delete the old place
- in the copy: delete all existing .svn directories
and use this as the source for copying the last version.
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by: sunnycoderPosted on 2009-01-14 at 03:08:52ID: 23371516
First error message means that your current working copy is not up to date. e.g. If head revision of a file is 100, your working copy is <=99. If you do an svn update before checking in, error would go away.
Second error message can be removed by executing svn cleanup as indicated.
I am not aware of any way to force checkin