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Re: Commit failed + checksum mismatch

by Eric Mader-2 :: Rate this Message:

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I have seen the same problem on Vista Ultimate x64. At the time, I had
Visual Studio 2008 running. When I did an update from the repository on
another machine I saw that the file had actually been committed.

Regards,
Eric Mader

syntevo Support wrote:

>
>
>  > We've also noticed that closing Visual Studio before committing changes
>  > seems to prevent the error... still testing that theory.
>
> That sounds interesting and we would really appreciate your input here. Is
> there any SVN integration in Visual Studio which might interfere with
> SmartSVN?
>
> Visual Studio is definitely a common application; do other VS users
> experience
> similar problems in combination with SmartSVN?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Marc Strapetz
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> www.syntevo.com
>
> "ZedUbal" <skrymsli@... <mailto:skrymsli%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>  > Hello!
>  >
>  > Recently we switched over to Subversion from CVS. I have been a
>  > longtime fan of smartcvs so I got smartsvn. Everything seems to be
>  > working well except some random errors that occur during commits. I
>  > am on Windows Vista x64 using version 5.0.4. Noticed these same
>  > problems in 5.0.3 and 4.0.x.
>  >
>  > I've read posts on similar problems from other users, but nothing in
>  > those threads seems to apply or fix the problem.
>  >
>  > Details:
>  >
>  > Randomly during commits I will get a message "Commit failed (details
>  > follow): Unknown error". The commit fails and the files that I was
>  > trying to commit are still displayed as "modified" in smartsvn. The
>  > more files I commit at once, the more likely this error happens.
>  >
>  > After this happens I try to update and I get a message like:
>  >
>  > Update to HEAD: working copy '<directory>' locked; try performing
>  > 'cleanup'
>  >
>  > I go to that directory and I select Modify->Cleanup. This always
>  > removes the lock icon. Now I can update and when I do most of the
>  > files change to an "unmodified" state, so they were actually committed
>  > successfully. One file will still show modified. When I attempt to
>  > commit that file I get a checksum mismatch error.
>  >
>  > This has probably happened to me about 30 times in the span of two
>  > months. It is very frustrating. To fix the checksum mismatch I end
>  > up marking the file as replaced. The only other way I have found to
>  > fix this problem is to check out the file in a new location, copy over
>  > the modified file and then commit again. It seems that the local
>  > metadata for the file gets corrupted somehow.
>  >
>  > I have a co-worker who is working on the same repository using
>  > smartsvn on Linux. He never saw any problems like this. As soon as
>  > he started working on the code in Vista (using smartsvn) he started to
>  > see exactly the same problems on his machine. It seems to be
>  > something specific to windows or vista. We've also noticed that
>  > closing Visual Studio before committing changes seems to prevent the
>  > error... still testing that theory.
>  >
>  > Any ideas? What information or log files can I provide to help you
>  > debug this problem?
>  >
>  >
>  >
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>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>


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