Brett Cook wrote on Fri, 21 Jun 2019 04:57 +00:00: > I’m doing a checkout using ‘svn co URL DEST’ and get an error that says > “Revision X doesn't match existing revision Y in DEST”.
For future searchers' benefit, the error code should have been E155000. (more below) > I’ve tried figuring out what causes this and why an old version of SVN > (svn, version 1.6.17 (r1128011) compiled Jun 2 2011, 23:35:08) works > and a newer version (svn, version 1.11.1 (r1850623) compiled Jan 9 > 2019, 19:28:50 on x86-microsoft-windows) does not, but have not been > successful. > > When searching for the answer, I get a lot of information about this > happening during a merge, but have yet to find anything related to > checkout. > > > I’m trying to find an explanation of a) what causes this and b) if > there are ways to have SVN not worry about it. It's a client-side error. I think it means working-copy recorded data doesn't match data newly received over the wire, but I haven't had time to confirm this. The relevant client-side library was rewritten between 1.6 and 1.7, which would explain why 1.6 and 1.11 behave differently. Note that 1.11.x is no longer supported; only 1.9.x/1.10.x/1.12.x are currently supported. In 1.12.x (and probably 1.11.x too) the error should only be raised if DEST existed and was a working copy before the 'svn co', so try specifying a new or empty directory as DEST instead. Cheers, Daniel
