[Solved] What did I do to TortoiseSVN???

[Avishai]

TortoiseSVN has worked very well for doing Updates until recently.  But now for some reason when I do an update all I get is "Completed   At revision: 41361" or whatever the newest revision number is.  But I don't get any revised files???  Is there a setting someplace that I need to change?

[taazz]

I think that sourceforge recently forced all projects to their new interface and you probably need to relocate your svn repositories to the new url or something along those lines. Keep in mind I do not use svn repository at all only the releases and nightly builds so I might be wrong on my assumptions.

[Avishai]

The url I have is: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/
Is that not right?

[JuhaManninen]

The url I have is: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/
Is that not right?

That contains all branches and tags. You should put "trunk" in the end.
You only need trunk branch when dealing with the development.

[Avishai]

Thanks JuhaManninen.  I don't understand why it has been working up until now but no matter.  Can you explain where I set it to http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk?  I know next to nothing about TortoiseSVN.  I only use it for updating.

[DirkS]

Can you explain where I set it to http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk?

'Relocate' should do the trick. Just add 'trunk' to the field 'To URL'.

Gr.
Dirk.

[Martin_fr]

It should work without trunk, I believe. But it will get you a lot of extra copies. Each and every branch.

You can try to select "Clean" from the menu, and clean the "work state"

Sometime that helps.

[Avishai]

Thanks guys.  I tried the "Relocate" and added /Trunk, but I got an Error.  It said something like "http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk/trunk does not exist".  So even without trunk, it seems to be getting that from somewhere although I don't know where.

I also tried "Clean", but I guess I'll have to wait until there is a new Rev. to see if it helped.

The bottom line is that I have gone through about 5 or 6 update revsions but not gotten a single new file.  It says that I am at Rev. 41361, but code wise it's probably more like 41355.

[Avishai]

I just tried an update and got the same result.  A new Rev. number but no new files listed.  I hope I don't have to uninstall everything and start from scratch again.  That's not fun.  I wonder just how out-of-date I really am.

[Avishai]

I made a backup of the Lazarus directory, deleted it and created a new, empty one.  Then I did SVN Checkout and replaced the FPC directory from the backup.  That appeared to fix things.  However, now there is a new problem.  When I try to recompile Lazarus, it does what I expect and completes without a problem.  But it doesn't restart and when I check the revision number, it hasn't changed.  It still shows 41365 even though the update is 41385.  And when I try to install my packages it seems to succeed, but the new components are not install.  My conclusion is that recompiling or linking is actually failing but not showing an Error.  Any ideas?

[JuhaManninen]

Then I did SVN Checkout and replaced the FPC directory from the backup.

What does that mean? There is no FPC directory in Lazarus SVN repository.

[Avishai]

Exactly.  But I keep my FPC directory inside the Lazarus directory.  I could have deleted all files except FPC and it would have been OK but I chose another route.

[Avishai]

If I can't resolve this very soon I will have to do a complete uninstall and reinstall - again.  Does anyone know if Lazarus uninstall cleans up the registry?  From past experience I think it probably doesn't or at least not very well.  It seems like some settings get lost and other stay.  It's always a headache to get things set back to the way they were before.  Too many times it has been things I didn't even know existed that cause the problems.

[Martin_fr]

Why uninstall?

If it is an svn checkout, then just delete/backup the folder, (keep the lazarus.exe, and any files you added yourself).

Config is stored in the user directory "Documents and Settings) Check Menu: "View/IDE internals/..."

Do a new checkout.

Copy the exe back into it

[Avishai]

Thank you Martin_fr, but I've already done that twice.  But recompiling just isn't updating even though it looks like it did and I can't install packages, even though it looks like it did.  I'm not getting Error messages, it just isn't updating.