Bug#350945: subversion: inscrutable error message while trying to create tag from working copy

[Britton Leo Kerin]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-3
Severity: normal


The svn book
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s06.html#svn-ch-4-sect-6.2)
describes creating a complex tag this way:

   $ ls
   my-working-copy/

   $ svn copy my-working-copy
   http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/tags/mytag

   Committed revision 352.

This doesn't work for me:

   greenwood$ svn copy $(pwd)/trunk file://$HOME/projects/rawrec/svn_repository/tags/complicated_pause_states
   svn: Commit failed (details follow):
   svn: Invalid change ordering: new node revision ID without delete
   svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
   svn:    'svn-commit.2.tmp'

I'm guess this doesn't work because what I have are edited sources
that I would like to make a snapshot of, not sources assembled from
various other version, which is the context of the tagging example
from the svn book.  However, the error message is inscrutable enough
that I can't really tell.


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Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  db4.3-util                 4.3.29-3      Berkeley v4.3 Database Utilities
ii  libapr0                    2.0.55-4      the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                      2.3.5-8       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libneon24                  0.24.7.dfsg-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libsvn0                    1.2.3dfsg1-3  shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  patch                      2.5.9-2       Apply a diff file to an original

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