"Fetching Tree Conflict information" dialog during update stuck?

[Jens Christian Restemeier]

Hi,

Sometimes after an update Tortoise SVN shows a "Fetching Tree Conflict information" dialog. I have never seen it complete whatever it is doing, even when leaving it sitting for a few minutes.

What is it actually doing, and would it be possible to get some kind of status or progress information? I assume it downloads some changelists for past revisions, but that shouldn't take that long.

Cheers,

Jens

Version info:

TortoiseSVN 1.14.5, Build 29465 - 64 Bit , 2022/09/24 08:31:31
ipv6 enabled
Subversion 1.14.2, -release
apr 1.6.5
apr-util 1.6.1
serf 1.3.9
OpenSSL 1.1.1n  15 Mar 2022
zlib 1.2.11
SQLite 3.36.0

[Stefan]

On Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 9:28:49 AM UTC+2 Jens Christian Restemeier wrote:

Hi,

Sometimes after an update Tortoise SVN shows a "Fetching Tree Conflict information" dialog. I have never seen it complete whatever it is doing, even when leaving it sitting for a few minutes.

What is it actually doing, and would it be possible to get some kind of status or progress information? I assume it downloads some changelists for past revisions, but that shouldn't take that long.

As the dialog says, it's fetching tree conflict information. This means that the update caused a tree conflict which you have to resolve.

To help you with resolving the tree conflict, svn tries to fetch additional information about that conflict. But it has to contact the repository to do so.

Depending on the version of the svn server this can take a very long time.

Of course, you can cancel that info-fetching. But then you have to figure out yourself why the tree conflict happend without additional info.

And yes, most users won't need that additional info to resolve the conflict.

Stefan