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Re: SVN Help



|| On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:23:27 +0200 (CEST)
|| Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote: 

at> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 04:25, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> > Deleting       cdd/menu
>> > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>> > svn: Out of date: '/cdd/trunk/cdd/share/cdd/menu' in transaction '7o'
>> > svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
>> > svn:    '/home/andreas/debian-maintain/alioth/cdd/cdd/trunk/cdd/share/svn-commit.tmp'
>> >
>> > How can I fix this?
>> 
>> I am approaching this from first principles, as I am new to svn too: did
>> you update at the dir above menu?  Perhaps the date on your sandbox copy
>> of the menu subdir is simply newer than the date in the repository.
at> Well, it is newer but why should it not be?  I see no problem in principle
at> why a directory with a newer time stamp should be a problem.  It was
at> created via

at>      svn --force move <old-location> <new-location>

at> which was absolutely no problem in a similar case.  (The --force option
at> was necessary because svn asked for it.)

at> In worst case I do a new checkput but I just want to know "the right
at> way" to go.

When you found this error, you need do a svn up. This will do the
local moves and then allow you continue to hack.

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