If you’ve ever tried to switch your current working copy to a new SVN URL with ‘svn switch –relocate [old_repo] [new_repo]‘ command you may run into an error message similar to this: svn: The repository at ‘[new_repo]‘ has uuid ‘[new_uuid]‘, but the WC has ‘[old_uuid]‘ The reason for this is that Subversion expects the same [...]

Ever gotten this Subversion checkout/update operation error message? svn: Failed to add directory ‘foo/foo’: an unversioned directory of the same name already exists You can fix this problem by applying an extra option of “–force” to the SVN’s checkout/update command.  This will mark the folder in question as updated and the subfolder files as versioned [...]

If you ever tried to do an integration activity in Perforce and have gotten a similar error message such as “no permission for operation on files(s)” then these are the steps you can do to resolve the problem: Check to make sure your branch spec or the source/target does not have any typo. Check to [...]

If you have gotten “Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset” error message when you’ve switched to the ticket based authentication, here’s what you can do to fix the problem: p4 login -p -a Simple. Straight forward.

I ran into another not-so-clear Perforce error message today while trying to import a new project to an existing depot.  I had a new project1 which I wanted to import into the existing // depot, but when I tried to add via P4V or ‘p4 add’ in the command line, I kept getting this message: [...]

Ever run into this error with Perforce’s ‘p4 changes’ or any other similar command? //projectfoo/bar/… – must refer to client ‘some_p4_client’.? I ran into this exact problem today.  I was trying to do a ‘p4 changes //projectfoo/bar/…@xxxxxx,yyyyyy’ to get a history of the changelist and got that error. The symptoms were that doing the same [...]