2016-11-08 17:08 GMT+01:00 Niemann, Hartmut <hartmut.niem...@siemens.com>: > Hello! > > It happened to me a couple of times that subversion complains that a pristine > file is missing from the .svn directory. > AFAIK the only solution is to do a fresh checkout if this happens.
Several years ago I also ran into this a couple of times (during the svn 1.7 era -- possibly also when mixing native svn clients with svnkit (java client)). I have not encountered it anymore since 1.9 at least (and not using svnkit anymore). Back then, I also discussed this on the users list [1], and learned about the following repairing technique: $ svn up --set-depth exclude X $ svn up X Or, if the working copy is locked and you cannot execute any svn command anymore, and even cleanup fails, you might need the following (you need an sqlite3 executable): $ sqlite3 .svn/wc.db "delete from work_queue" $ svn cleanup $ svn up --set-depth exclude X $ svn up X Apart from 'svn up --set-depth exclude X', sometimes also 'svn up -r0 X' works to fix similar wc-corruptions. FWIW, there were several other interesting mail discussions on the dev-list about this and other (in theory repairable) working copy corruptions. See [2], [3], and [4]. Most people agreed that such repairing features in core svn would be very useful, but unfortunately the ideas never got anywhere. > Would it be possible that subversion treats the .svn/pristine directory as a > cache and simply fetches any missing files > when it needs them? > The information for this should be in the database. Sounds a bit like the (very old) feature request for optional pristines [5] (but then a non-intentional optionalilty) or other similar feature-suggestions to avoid the disk space overhead of pristine files. But it's an interesting suggestion. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201203.mbox/%3ccab84ubuv7dv9wy25w-omyuvzvh5vxvm2rhuzpjrt8vjpejm...@mail.gmail.com%3E [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201206.mbox/%3CCAB84uBUJeZDHjhKP6Fz2hoU_g1oHUZyUq_wNVNC=ppyju7h...@mail.gmail.com%3E [3] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-09/0304.shtml [4] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2013-04/0426.shtml [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-525 -- Johan