Posts tagged Subversion

I keep my home directory in a Subversion repository. A month ago that repository broke down. Subversion developers were unable to help me without access to the repository, which I didn't want to grant, since my repository contains some private data (Jabber account passwords and the like). I spent a day debugging the problem until I found the cause (a loop in a data structure). Then I was too busy to do anything, and a month went by without regular backups.

The most annoying subversion error message: $ svn up ... svn: Won't delete locally modified directory 'foo/bar' svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files This happens when a subdirectory of 'foo/bar' is removed from the upstream repository, and subversion tries and fails to remove ir locally -- fails because it finds some some files that are listed in svn:ignore (e.g. editor backup files, compiled object files, compiled Python modules).