Thanks for taking the time to post this. JLM
Jeremy Mordkoff Director, QA, IT & Release ZeeVee, Inc. One Monarch Drive | Littleton, MA 01460 Office: 978.467.1395 x233 | Fax: 978.467.1404 Mobile: 978-257-2183 j...@zeevee.com www.zeevee.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Brewster [mailto:n...@ajmani.org] On Behalf Of Neil Brewster > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:21 AM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: commit fails with "has no ancestry information" error (solved) > > I've seen this issue reported in various mailing lists without solutions > (including the 2006 archives of this list!). Recently I found an answer > and wanted to add it to the mailing list archives: > > Problem: > > > % svn commit -m '' > > > > I get the following error: > > > > > > svn: '/d0/home/tlm/path_to_some_dir/Project' has no > > ancestry information > > Resolution - > From http://victorhurdugaci.com/svn-no-ancestry-information/: > > It seems that the SVN commit is forbidden if you try to commit a file > that is a folders structure, and one of the nodes in it (not the top most > parent) is missing the .svn folder. > > - folder1 [with .svn] > - folder2 [without .svn] > - folder3 [with .svn] > Committing “folder3″ will bring that error message. > > In my case, there was a stray .svn in folder1 after I rearranged my > workspace. Removing it solved the issue. (SVN client 1.6.6) > > neil.
