On 5/25/05, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:23:17PM -0400, Dylan Hardison wrote:
>
> > On 5/25/05, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> > > Folks:
> > >
> > > I've got a project called "mlt" under /home/paulf/src/mlt, and under the
> > > management of subversion. I've made a bunch of changes, and want to
> > > commit all the changes. I get an error I've gotten often before, and
> > > never figured out why. In /home/paulf/src/mlt, I issued this command:
> > >
> > > svn ci
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > svn ci mlt
> > >
> > > The commit failed, with messages including the following:
> > >
> > > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > > svn: File not found: transaction 'e', path '/mlt/CHANGES'
> > >
> > > It's that "file not found" part. The file's there, and the repository is
> > > found by svn, near as I can tell. I don't understand the problem, nor
> > > can I find an answer when I google for "svn: File not found". Any ideas?
> > >
> >
> > Chances are you changed some properties (svn propset).
> > do a svn update and then try commiting. It should work.
>
> And yet it doesn't. ;-}
>
> >
> > By the way, are you usinf fsfs? it's much less error-prone...
> >
>
> I had to look this up. Don't know what difference it would make at this
> point, nor am I sure that this is the origin of the current problem.
> Anyway...
>
> Any more suggestions?
>
Okay. it is possible the fsbdb subversion repository is borked.
Try running svnadmin recover /path/to/repository
Or, perhaps more likely, the problem is similar to the one described here:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-08/0057.shtml
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