pristine svn-base file missing

Question

I\'m trying to svn update my SVN working copy with TortoiseSVN but the update fails, asking to perform the clean up first.

However, the svn cleanup

Answer 1

Took chunguiw's answer and wrote a Python (2.7) script for it, in case anyone's interested.

It follows the procedure: try a clean-up, parse output, touch missing file, repeat until done.

import os
import sys
import subprocess
import re

def touch(fname, times=None):
    with open(fname, 'a'):
        os.utime(fname, times)


svnbase_regex = re.compile(r"svn: E720002: Can't open file \'([^']+)\':")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Can pass SVN working copy's root folder as a parameter, otherwise runs on CWD
    try:
        root_folder = sys.argv[1]
    except IndexError:
        root_folder = "."
    root_folder = os.path.abspath(root_folder)
    os.chdir(root_folder)
    count = max_times = 10
    # Repeats file touching at most N times (the number above)
    while count > 0:
        count -= 1
        try:
            svn_output = subprocess.check_output("svn cleanup", stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
        except subprocess.CalledProcessError, e:
            svn_output = e.output
        regex_match = svnbase_regex.search(svn_output)
        if not regex_match:
            break
        touch(regex_match.group(1))
        print "Done %s" % regex_match.group(1)
    print "Exited, fixed up %s missing entries." % (max_times - count)
    print "last SVN output:"
    print svn_output