[Bitkeeper-users] Missing File In Repository

[Francois Pepin]

Hi Rick,

I'm working on the same repository as Robert here. BK version is 3.2.3.

$ bk version
BitKeeper/Pro version is bk-3.2.3 20040818155841 for x86_64-glibc23-
linux
Built by: lm at amd64.bitmover.com in /build/3.2.x-lm/src
Built on: Wed Aug 18 11:13:46 PDT 2004
Running on: Linux 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp

What happened is that Robert delete the file, managed to convince his
local repository that things were fine enough and push to the parent.
There are about a dozen changesets that were pushed with the various
attempts of fixing the problem. We're not quite sure how he managed to
do it, but he never touched the parent repository directly.

> What do these two commands give in your local repo:
> 	bk -r check -vac
> 	bk -R sfiles -cp

On Robert's directory is says that everything is fine.

On the parent directory:

$ bk -r check -vac
Marked gone (bk help chk1):
src/experimental/rlesurf/loadMouseArrays.java
100% |=================================================================|
OK
$ bk -R sfiles -cp
$

The error message below is what happens when I'm trying to pull from the
parent to my own repository, meaning  no one, except for Robert, can
pull anything from the parent repository.

On the plus side, we can clone from the parent repository as long as we
don't force bk to look at that bad changeset things behave nicely
enough. I would rather prefer that everything remains in a consistent
state and not have to force everyone to start over from freshly cloned
repositories and recreate their changes.

Francois

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:07 -0800, Rick Smith wrote:
> First step is to get your repository to pass
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:57:20PM -0500, Robert Lesurf wrote:
> > I've deleted a couple files that were under Bitkeeper control, and
> > then pushed the changes the repository.
> 
> Do you mean commited the change?
> What version of bk are you using?
> 
> > Now I'm getting errors about the missing files.  I've tried using
> > "undo" to remove changesets, but this doesn't work and instead comes
> > up with a missing file error. 
> 
> Okay, you want to stabilize your repository passing a 'bk -r check -vac'
> before messing with push and pull to others.
> 
> > Also, I've used the "gone" command to fix the problem on my local
> > machine,
> 
> How?  Something like
> 
>            bk -r check -ag | bk -R gone -
> 	   bk commit
> 
> The first line adds entries to the gone file, but does not commit.
> If you try to push or pull after the first step, then the changes
> to the gone file do no propagate and the other repos will see the
> error.
> 
> What do these two commands give in your local repo:
> 	bk -r check -vac
> 	bk -R sfiles -cp
> 
> If the first one returns that the repo is OK and the second one lists
> the BitKeeper/etc/gone file, then you need to run citool and make a
> cset for the changes to the gone file.  Then try the pull again.
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> > but the repository still seems to be confused about the
> > missing files - other individuals cannot "pull" from the repository. 
> > Is there anything that can be done to fix this problem (without
> > cloning a new copy)?  Unfortunately, I no longer have the original
> > files that were deleted. 
> > 
> > Here's part of the error message from when someone else tries to pull
> > from the repository:
> > 
> > 
> > src/experimental/rlesurf/loadMouseArrays.java|20070115164353|60842|
> > d7a309455e461888
> >         is missing and key is not in a committed gone delta, aborting.
> > adler32 aborting
> > cmd_pull_part2: makepatch failed; status = 1
> > ChangeSet: 16 deltas
> > BitKeeper/etc/gone: 6 deltas
> > BitKeeper/deleted/.del-GetConcordances.java~60841449b8dafaae fnext: No
> > such file or directory
> > 
> > =================================== ERROR
> > ====================================
> > takepatch: missing checksum line in patch, aborting.
> > takepatch: other patches left in PENDING
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