On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:00, Petra Langebroek <petra.langebr...@awi.de> wrote: > > On 1 Sep 2010, at 4:22 PM, Andy Levy wrote: > >> Please don't reply directly to me. Use Reply to All to reply to the >> mailing list. >> >> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:38, Petra Langebroek <petra.langebr...@awi.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 1 Sep 2010, at 3:27 PM, Andy Levy wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 06:31, Petra Langebroek <petra.langebr...@awi.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am using an relatively old version of subversion (1.3.1) and would like to >>> edit a log file that I already committed to the main repository. >>> >>> The normal solutions of changing the properties >>> >>> svn propedit -r N --revprop svn:log URL >>> >>> or >>> >>> svnadmin setlog -r <Rev. Nr> --bypass-hooks <File with log-message> >>> >>> dont work, because this version had no "hooks" directory. >>> >>> Any help is greatly appreciated! >>> >>> Subversion has had hook scripts since before 1.3. Why does your >>> repository not have a "hooks" directory at all? Did you delete it? >>> What is the *actual* error message you get - please don't just say "it >>> doesn't work" - there should be a useful error message returned. >>> >>> >>> I have no clue why I don't have this hooks directory, I never deleted it. >>> Maybe because I did not set up the initial project, only joined an already >>> existing project, and just "checkout" the project? >> >> Hooks are on the server, not in your working copy. They reside in the >> same directory as the repository. > > Ok, maybe that is the problem: my repository is at a website. > >> >>> If I type: >>> svn propset svn:log "Added wisosw_d as input file" -r65 --revprop >>> Error: >>> svn: DAV request failed; it's possible that the repository's >>> pre-revprop-change hook either failed or is non-existent >>> svn: At least one property change failed; repository is unchanged >>> If I type: >>> svnadmin setlog -r 65 --bypass-hooks newlog.txt >>> (Where newlog.txt is "Added wisosw_d as input file".) >>> Error: >>> svnadmin: Exactly one file argument required >> >> What does svnadmin setlog take for parameters (I haven't had 1.3 >> around for years, so I don't recall)? svnadmin help setlog > > svnadmin help setlog: > > setlog: usage: svnadmin setlog REPOS_PATH -r REVISION FILE > > Set the log-message on revision REVISION to the contents of FILE. Use > --bypass-hooks to avoid triggering the revision-property-related hooks > (for example, if you do not want an email notification sent > from your post-revprop-change hook, or because the modification of > revision properties has not been enabled in the pre-revprop-change > hook). > > NOTE: revision properties are not historied, so this command > will permanently overwrite the previous log message. > > Valid options: > -r [--revision] arg : specify revision number ARG (or X:Y range) > --bypass-hooks : bypass the repository hook system > > > I tried: > svnadmin setlog http://aforge.awi.de/svn/echam5iso -r 65 --bypass-hooks > newlog.txt > > Error: > svnadmin: 'http://aforge.awi.de/svn/echam5iso' is an URL when it should be a > path > > Indeed it is an ULR, but I never used a path.
svnadmin can only be used with a local file path. It cannot take URLs. If you do not have shell access to the server, you can't use svnadmin. Or you could install a pre-revprop-change hook to allow you to do it via svn propset --revprop
