What makes you think the problem is unique to clients working against 1.6 servers?
Brockamp, Peter wrote on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 18:16:45 +0200: > It's me again, I have some additional information regarding the problem, > maybe this helps: > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Brockamp, Peter > > Gesendet: Montag, 17. Oktober 2011 17:49 > > An: 'users@subversion.apache.org' > > Betreff: Supposed serious(?) bug in either subversion or > > TortoiseSVN when upgrading to latest V1.7.0 version > > - I checked and had to realize that the described problem appeared in more > than > one of my projects. So this seems *not* to be a sporadic problem but rather > often! > - After the test with trying to revert one of those files I ended up with a > broken > local SVN-state, any attempt to "Clean Up..." the problem project yields the > very same assertion: > > --------------------------- > Subversion Exception! > --------------------------- > Subversion encountered a serious problem. > Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list > (users@subversion.apache.org) > with as much information as possible about what > you were trying to do. > But please first search the mailing list archives for the error message > to avoid reporting the same problem repeatedly. > You can find the mailing list archives at > http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > Subversion reported the following > (you can copy the content of this dialog > to the clipboard using Ctrl-C): > > In Datei > > »D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.7.0\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\workqueue.c«, > Zeile 672: Assert-Anweisung schlug fehl (checksum != NULL) > --------------------------- > OK > --------------------------- > > -> Thus things obviously got severely and permanetly wrong with this > directory! > - I tried to do a "Clean Up..." on one of the other projects with broken file > states. > This gave me an alleged successful clean up, but afterwards still showed > files as > locally modified and empty in the repository. > - By way of trial I locally erased one of these broken-state-files in my > projects and > tried an update. This again gives me the assertion above, leaving the second > directory in an corrupted state. > > > So, as I see it now, this is in fact a *serious* problem at least with > TortoiseSVN > 1.7.0 working against an 1.6 SVN-server! So actually I must severly warn > about using > this configuration in a production environment, it will potentially cause you > problems! > > > Regards > > Peter Brockamp