Comments on: Fix Subversion “checksum mismatch” error by editing .svn/entries file

By: me

me — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:06:44 +0000

running svn, version 1.6.12 (r955767) here

checksum not found in ‘entries’

phenomenon:
[filename] and .svn/text-base/[filename]
were of different content

solution:
copying the incriminated file to .svn/text-base/
plus
chmod -w svn/text-base/[filename]

By: akel

akel — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:56:21 +0000

thanks venura :)

By: Andruindo

Andruindo — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:38:46 +0000

In SVN 7 I’ve replaced the whole .svn directory to fix this (there is only one .svn for the whole project).

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:22:26 +0000

If the files with mismatched checksums are not modified, just remove the local copy and update to restore them and recalculate the checksums. If modified, move them elsewhere instead of deleting, then copy them back in place of the fresh copies after updating. No need to touch the repository itself.

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By: Saritha

Saritha — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:05:23 +0000

Venura’s solution worked for me too…thank you very much !!!

By: David Palm

David Palm — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:38:07 +0000

Tried this and many other solutions. Nothing worked. On a whim I upgraded subversion from 1.4.2 to 1.6.6. Fixed it!

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:14:16 +0000

Venura’s solution worked, but if this happened in the root directory, ,,,

By: sangarawa

sangarawa — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:08:16 +0000

I also had the same problem
thanks venura

By: Leonardo C.

Leonardo C. — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:01:20 +0000

I just lost my mind over the same problem. Venura’s solution worked quite well here, seems like the easiest workaround.

By: Venura Athukorala

Venura Athukorala — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:47:35 +0000

Copy the files to somewhere else.
remove the directory.
svn update.
then recopy the backup over the checked-out version without the .svn files
editing the checksum is not a safe solution, believe me

By: Touko

Touko — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:35:49 +0000

I managed to fix my “Checksum mismatch” issue with editing the .svn/entries for the file causing problem. Thanks.

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By: Meitar

Meitar — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:41:58 +0000

Hi Anurag. Yeah, the thought of needing to delete and then re-add the files from revision control does seem silly to me. Glad to hear that worked for you, though. Also, thanks for sharing that tip with me.

By: Anurag

Anurag — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:04:49 +0000

Same experience, however changing the entries did not work.

I found actually a more straight forward solution, which in retrospect may be a bit silly.

I simply made a copy of all the files which have been affected (actually only the files that have been sitting in the root of the project) and then deleted all those files from the project. I committed the delete (no problem there) and then simply re-imported the files and did another commit. Also this caused no further issue, all the revision numbers have been updated accordingly and it all looks good.

I am sure too, that this is not an elegant or recommended solution :)

By: Meitar

Meitar — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:42:33 +0000

i had the checksum missmatching problem to, but in my .svn/entries file was the expected md5 and not the actual, did you meen to replace the expected with the actual?

Um…not sure. I'm pretty sure I get it right in my post, but I can't verify this since I don't know how to replicate the issue. I imagine you should just need to replace the one with the other. Of course, that's assuming this is the source of your error, which I can't be certain about either. You might do well to follow the advice on some other, similar blog fosts that I discovered with a Google search on "subversion checksum mismatch". See, for instance: Moving objects around. Using db_dump, though I'm not sure what that is. Another .svn/entries fix.

By: Tobias Janz

Tobias Janz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:28:37 +0000

Hi,
i had the checksum missmatching problem to, but in my .svn/entries file was the expected md5 and not the actual, did you meen to replace the expected with the actual? Did not work to.
My broken file was in directory Projects and was named “build.xml”. I switched to Projects/.svn and opened “entries” with textmate.

By: Joe Lewis

Joe Lewis — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:26:12 +0000

I am a git convert as well.