Subversion upgrades of existing dirs

Jason Hellenthal jhell at DataIX.net
Thu Dec 22 17:56:31 UTC 2011



On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> How do I upgrade an existing svn tree with the current svn client.  I
> don't really get what the client is trying to tell me here.
> 
> [sbruno at ref9-xen32 /dumpster/scratch/sbruno-scratch/9]$ svn up
> svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command
> svn: E155036: Working copy '/dumpster/scratch/sbruno-scratch/9' is an
> old development version (format 12); to upgrade it, use a format 18
> client, then use 'tools/dev/wc-ng/bumpt
> 
> [sbruno at ref9-xen32 /dumpster/scratch/sbruno-scratch/9]$ svn upgrade .
> svn: E155019: Can't upgrade '/dumpster/scratch/sbruno-scratch/9' as it
> is not a pre-1.7 working copy directory
> svn: E150000: Missing default entry
> 

seeing as this is a scratch location I wouldnt waste the time to figure it out and just recheck the sources out for 9 and move over whatever needed to function. I have found some instances of pre-checked out source unable to upgrade for whatever reason.

'tools/dev/wc-ng/bumpt' should be in the source tarball for SVN. Round about it is telling you to use a Subversion 1.8 client.

> [sbruno at ref9-xen32 /dumpster/scratch/sbruno-scratch/9]$ pkg_info 
> 44bsd-csh-20001106_3 The traditional 4.4BSD /bin/csh C-shell
> ambit-2.0.39        Extended bash brace expansion to expand hostnames or
> comman
> apr-ipv6-devrandom-gdbm-db42-1.4.5.1.3.12 Apache Portability Library
> bash-4.1.10         The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
> bison-2.4.3,1       A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible
> with Yacc
> db42-4.2.52_5       The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.2
> expat-2.0.1_1       XML 1.0 parser written in C
> gdbm-1.8.3_3        The GNU database manager
> gettext-0.18.1.1    GNU gettext package
> libiconv-1.13.1_1   A character set conversion library
> libtool-2.4_1       Generic shared library support script
> m4-1.4.16,1         GNU m4
> neon29-0.29.6_2     An HTTP and WebDAV client library for Unix systems
> pkg-config-0.25_1   A utility to retrieve information about installed
> libraries
> sqlite3-3.7.7.1     An SQL database engine in a C library
> subversion-1.7.2    Version control system
> 
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