I was able to reproduce the problem.
When we migrated from Clearcase to SVN, all the separate VOBs that made up
our product (as well as several other products) were copied into one large
repository. The other products are now migrating from Clearcase so we need
to emulate some of the common VOB directory structure by moving the
contents of these common directories into separate repositories and then
use svn:externals across these multiple products to include this common
code back into each product.
The problem is the original large repository where we need to delete the
contents of these common directories and then add svn:externals to
reference the new common code from these other repositories.
The scenarios:
I have three working copies(WCs): ws0, ws1 and ws2 that are all checked out
from the same branch/revision:
1/ ws0 is where I will perform the deletion of the broadcom 6.3.5
directory, commit it and then add the svn:externals as a 2nd commit.
Note: If we deleted the directory and then defined the svn:externals
with the same name as one commit, it resulted in directory tree conflicts.
e.g.
rev XXX is the original revision, XXX+1 is the deletion of the
broadcom directory and XXX+2 is the definition of the svn:externals
When I run the 'svnversion' command, it reports back a single revision:
XXX+2
2/ So ws1 is at revision XXX and 'svn update -r XXX+1' that deletes the
broadcom directory and updates the WC successfully.
Then a second 'svn update' is run that creates the new svn:externals
of the same name as the broadcom directory
When I run the 'svnversion' command, it reports back a single
revision: XXX+2
3/ So ws2 is at revision XXX and a 'svn update' will do both the delete of
the existing broadcom directory and then create the new
svn:externals of the same name as the broadcom directory. It fails
with the following warning:
svn: warning: W155009: Failed to run the WC DB work queue
associated with '/home/bwebste1/svn/ws2/broadcom/BCM_SDK_6.3.5', work item
1 (file-install
broadcom/BCM_SDK_6.3.5/sdk-all/systems/linux/user/groove-2_6/Makefile 1 0 1
1)
Updated to revision 14012.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals
definitions
Running 'svnversion' reports back a switched mixed revision WC
i.e. 285:14012S
where 285 is the pegged revision of the new svn:externals and
14012 is the XXX+2 revision of this product's repository.
When I run a subsequent 'svn update', it reports the following:
Updating '.':
Fetching external item into 'broadcom/BCM_SDK_6.3.5':
svn: warning: W155037: Previous operation has not finished; run
'cleanup' if it was interrupted
At revision 14012.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals
definitions
Running 'svn cleanup' or 'svn cleanup --include-externals' has no affect.
I then upgraded my svn client from 1.8.16 to 1.9.4 but no change either.
The 'svnversion' still reports the workspace as a Switched mixed revision
WC.
At this point, I can only recommend the following:
If the designer does not require to execute the 'svn merge' command
then this WC is OK for use else delete it and create a new WC.
Any better solutions?.
On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 3:55:41 PM UTC-4, webste...@rogers.com wrote:
>
> My mixed revision working copy remains mixed revision after multiple
> attempts with 'svn update'.
> Here's the final status output:
>
> [linux] >> svn st -u
> X vobs/common/cpCommon
> X vobs/common/dclCommon
> X vobs/ots/broadcom/BCM_SDK_6.4.11
> X vobs/ots/osm4/Apps/HalServer/Drivers/lim400/Lim400API
> X vobs/ots/osm4/Target/PldImages/lim400g_1
> X vobs/ots/osm4/Tests/framework/tl1probe/mteraiv
> X vobs/ots/uboot/u-boot-2009.06
> X vobs/ots/uboot/u-boot-2013.01.01
> X vobs/ots/wrlplat/tlab_qemuppc
> X vobs/ots/wrlplat/tlab_xeoncore50
> X vobs/ots/wrlplat/tlabqoriq50_small
> X vobs/prod
> Status against revision: 13673
>
> Performing status on external item at
> 'vobs/ots/osm4/Target/PldImages/lim400g_1':
> Status against revision: 87468
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/ots/uboot/u-boot-2009.06':
> Status against revision: 475
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/common/cpCommon':
> Status against revision: 101
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/common/dclCommon':
> Status against revision: 101
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/ots/uboot/u-boot-2013.01.01':
> Status against revision: 475
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/ots/wrlplat/tlab_xeoncore50':
> Status against revision: 539
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/prod':
> Status against revision: 1290
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/ots/broadcom/BCM_SDK_6.4.11':
> Status against revision: 614
>
> Performing status on external item at
> 'vobs/ots/osm4/Tests/framework/tl1probe/mteraiv':
> X
> vobs/ots/osm4/Tests/framework/tl1probe/mteraiv/TL1_Library
> Status against revision: 2575
>
> Performing status on external item at
> 'vobs/ots/osm4/Tests/framework/tl1probe/mteraiv/TL1_Library':
> Status against revision: 65663
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/ots/wrlplat/tlabqoriq50_small':
> Status against revision: 672
>
> Performing status on external item at 'vobs/ots/wrlplat/tlab_qemuppc':
> Status against revision: 403
>
> Performing status on external item at
> 'vobs/ots/osm4/Apps/HalServer/Drivers/lim400/Lim400API':
> Status against revision: 73002
>
> [Linux] >> svnversion
> 475:13673S
>
>
> There are two 'uboot' svn:externals pegged at 475 so I deleted the parent
> directory (i.e. rm -rf vobs/ots/uboot) and did another 'svn update' but
> that didn't clean it up. The svnversion is still reporting 475:13673S.
>
> The svn client version is 1.8.14.
>
> Thanks in advance for any insights.
>
> Brent
> ---- Brent
>
