Question

I am having this weired SVN issue . I have a file when I try to commit it shows me following error.

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svn: Checksum mismatch for 'C:\Users\xxx\workspace\Accounts1\.svn\text-base\manage_report.jsp.svn-base'; expected: 'd32ed2ae778b684ee496adc1386c2a6d', recorded: '25bb91909b02c117c206b5ad1ac5aa5b'

I tried to delete that file from SVN and adding a new file and still I am getting same error . I tried cleanup too.

What’s reason causing this ? Thanks for any solutions .

Answer 1

I really hate copy-and-pasted urls pointing to solutions, as answers to questions, but this blog has a very long write-up:

http://andrew.hedges.name/blog/2009/01/25/how-to-recover-from-checksum-mismatch-errors-in-svn

Basically, from his blog, he says:

1.Check out the latest revision of the corrupted directory into a temporary directory
2.Delete the munged SVN revision files
3.Copy the correct SVN revision files into the working directory

Now, his directions are for mac, but…

• Replace Terminal.app with cmd.exe
• Replace ls -la with dir
• Replace rm * with del *.*
• Replace cp * with copy *.*

Personally, I would make a copy of the ENTIRE checkout directory before proceeding. Also, read his warning/disclaimer.

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EDIT: Update

Additionally, one of the comments on that blog post has a lot of merit:

This is a silly way.

Why not just check in the files you can, move your working copy dir
somewhere, do an update to get a new working copy, and finally copy
the remaining files into the new working copy. Delete old working
copy. Done. No need to worry about .svn directories.

Why be married to a busted working copy? Just ditch it.