iwsubmit error - ERROR:02401: File or directory is the same as the other version

I am running into an error when trying to submit files that have been deleted. In the workflow, it executes the delete commands (del and rmdir) to delete the file or directory. After those delete commands are executed, I need to call iwsubmit to remove the files/folders that are marked for deletion. The problem is sometimes the iwsubmit works and sometimes it doesn't. The times it doesn't, I can take the exact command from the script and run it from a command prompt and it executes like it is supposed to. Below is the iwsubmit command and the error received when executed from the script.

command -> E:\iw-home\bin\iwsubmit.exe -w -u -r "\default\main\i_t_net\WORKAREA\CSS_TS_Support\htdocs\csstest\ATest\TestFolder2" "delete comment" 2>&1
result -> \default\main\i_t_net\WORKAREA\CSS_TS_Support\htdocs\csstest\ATest\TestFolder2: ERROR:02401: File or directory is the same as the other version

I have done a search for this error, but I'm not able to find anything about what is causing it let alone how to fix it. Anyone have any experience with this error or any ideas of what is causing it?

Thanks!

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Adam Stoller

I am running into an error when trying to submit files that have been deleted. In the workflow, it executes the delete commands (del and rmdir) to delete the file or directory. After those delete commands are executed, I need to call iwsubmit to remove the files/folders that are marked for deletion. The problem is sometimes the iwsubmit works and sometimes it doesn't. The times it doesn't, I can take the exact command from the script and run it from a command prompt and it executes like it is supposed to. Below is the iwsubmit command and the error received when executed from the script.

command -> E:\iw-home\bin\iwsubmit.exe -w -u -r "\default\main\i_t_net\WORKAREA\CSS_TS_Support\htdocs\csstest\ATest\TestFolder2" "delete comment" 2>&1
result -> \default\main\i_t_net\WORKAREA\CSS_TS_Support\htdocs\csstest\ATest\TestFolder2: ERROR:02401: File or directory is the same as the other version

I have done a search for this error, but I'm not able to find anything about what is causing it let alone how to fix it. Anyone have any experience with this error or any ideas of what is causing it?

Thanks!

I find it hard (though not 100% impossible) to believe that you can run the exact same command from a script and command line and get that error unless you are getting the error after you've already run that command in one of those two ways.

The error message is quite explicit, it says you are trying to submit something that hasn't changed. If it wasn't changed within the script, it shouldn't be changed from the command-line and vice-versa.

If the submit fails in the script - are you sure the script doesn't somehow manage to modify the file (contents or EAs)? If it does, that would explain why it then works.

Rick Poulin

ERROR:02401: File or directory is the same as the other version

That's not an error as much as a notification of a noop, because it's not going to create a new version when there's no difference between the files or subtrees. Your script could typically ignore this error, unless you were actually expecting the items to be different. You should see exactly the same message when you run the command manually, unless your STDERR is not coming across in your console.

Is the resulting behaviour in TeamSite any different? i.e. does the command report "same version" when it shouldn't be?

Note that iwsubmit takes in a vpath, not a file path, so you should flip your vpath argument to forward slashes... not that it should make that much of a difference.

ALT

Attached are screen shots of the directories before the delete and after so you can clearly see that the timestamps on them are different...therefore not sure why it is saying they are the same. It also doesn't explain why the submit on one of the directories will work with the other one doesn't when they are processed the same way.

Adam Stoller

Attached are screen shots of the directories before the delete and after so you can clearly see that the timestamps on them are different...therefore not sure why it is saying they are the same. It also doesn't explain why the submit on one of the directories will work with the other one doesn't when they are processed the same way.

First of all, directories are not truly versioned in TeamSite - files are.
Are you sure that none of the files within either of those directories are locked - either in that workarea, or in some other workarea if you have [or had] multiple workareas on that branch?

I suggest changing the code in the script and the command line to include the '-r' flag and to make sure you capture both STDOUT and STDERR to further diagnose what's happening:

my $cmd = qq($iwhome/bin/iwsubmit -r $vpathToDirectory $comment);
my $results = qx($cmd 2>&1);
my $status = $? >> 8;
if ($status) {
    # log all the relevant information: $cmd, $status, and $results
}
else {
    # log that everything went okay
}

You could also try using the '-w' or '-x' flags...