Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-16 Thread Justin Case
- Original Message - > From: Stefan Sperling > > AFAIK open files cannot be deleted on Windows. So either the file was closed > at the time the 1.6 wc log was run, or the 1.6 wc log failed to actually > update the on-disk data. No no no :) neither nor. 1.6 just tested the file _before_

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-15 Thread Justin Case
- Original Message - > > I'm not sure whether that applies to Justin's particular case because > that's only a problem if the lock gets released between the original > workqueue run and the second workqueue run.  That's a very small > window--in most cases both runs see the lock and the b

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-15 Thread Justin Case
- Original Message - > > But as said before, that's possibly quite hard to achieve > in light of an existing possibly multi-layered implementation No idea what you mean with multi-layers - wc.db and such are internal issues of svn, of which nobody above should be made aware. I think. At

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-13 Thread Justin Case
> From: Johan Corveleyn > > The problem is that, at the point where svn runs into this locked > file, half of the work has already been done (the metadata in wc.db > has already been updated). The remaining work (moving the file into > place) is scheduled in a specific table called the work_que

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-13 Thread Justin Case
- Original Message - > From: Ulrich Eckhardt > > Sorry, but I'm afraid I didn't get across what I wanted to say. Correct. Let me simplify again my test case: 1. I run svn update 2. svn update finds a file in use, aborts 3. I free the file, oops it seems I have to cleanup Why should I

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-12 Thread Justin Case
- Original Message - > From: Ulrich Eckhardt > Yes, probably, unless it was killed so quickly that it couldn't even cry > for help any more, which e.g. happens if you cut the power or use "kill > -9" on POSIX systems. We're not talking here about natural catastrophes, but about a file w

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-12 Thread Justin Case
> From: Ulrich Eckhardt > > Only you (the user) knows "if it was interrupted" or is maybe still > running! I would say that this message could be improved[0], but I beg to differ: the operation which interrupted itself because it found a file in use knows very well that it was interrupted. So, i

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-12 Thread Justin Case
> From: Johan Corveleyn > > cleanup' (cleanup is the only command that will unconditionally remove > these locks, so you should only run it if you're sure there is no > other command running concurrently, and those locks are "stale locks" > left by other interrupted commands). > [...] > I don't f

Re: Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-12 Thread Justin Case
Hello all, did I just ask a stupid question :) or nobody has any idea what's going wrong here? Thank you very much for your patience, JJ - Original Message - > From: Justin Case > > Hi all, > this is something new for me (TortoiseSVN 1.7.7 with Subversion 1.7.5 on

Cleanup needed after failed update

2012-06-06 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, this is something new for me (TortoiseSVN 1.7.7 with Subversion 1.7.5 on Windows XP): - I try to update something when a file is in use, - update understandably fails, it cannot overwrite that file. Fine. - BUT I cannot update again, I have to cleanup first! Before days (months?) the clean