[Pkg-mailman-hackers] svn problem: Can you help me?

[Joost van Baal]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:11:16PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a problem with subversion, I wonder if you could help me:
> 
> I tried:
> 
> master at capsaicin$ svn mv 'svn+ssh://lmamane@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10/' svn+ssh://lmamane@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10/debian
> svn: Cannot move URL 'svn+ssh://lmamane@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10' into itself
> 
> OK, fair enough. So I did:
> 
> master at capsaicin$ svn mv 'svn+ssh://lmamane@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10/' svn+ssh://lmamane@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10.tmp
> Committed revision 282.
> 
> and then
> 
> master at capsaicin$ svn mv 'svn+ssh://lmamane@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10.tmp' svn+ssh://lmamane@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10/debian
> svn: Out of date: '/tags/2.1.5-10' in transaction '282-1'
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn:    'svn-commit.tmp'

You're trying to move to a target you've deleted just before.

> What does that mean and how do I get out of this dead-end? Thanks in
> advance.

It seems you should've used an "svn mkdir" just before the last mv.

Bye,

Joost

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                                                 Tilburg University
j.e.vanbaal at uvt.nl                                  The Netherlands
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