Did you check svn's stderr?
bimininavels wrote on Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:45:36 -0800: > I've been struggling all morning with what should be a very simple problem. > > I would like to commit and update a svn repository daily using cron. I've > encapsulated my svn calls into a perl script, which runs the following > > ---- > #!/usr/bin/perl > > print "To run svn commit\n"; > $thetime=time; > > system "cd ~/docs; /usr/bin/svn commit --message '$thetime' \n"; > system "cd ~/docs; /usr/bin/svn info \n"; > ---- > > The whole thing is >> to a file in my /tmp directory for monitoring. > > The script works fine if I run it manually. > > In the monitoring file, I see the correct output from svn info after the > cronjob, but it looks like the "svn commit" never runs. I don't see any > output > from it and the revision never changes. > > ---- > To run svn commit > Path: . > URL: svn://xxremoved > Repository Root: svn://xxremoved > Repository UUID: xxremoved > Revision: 487 > Node Kind: directory > Schedule: normal > Last Changed Rev: 487 > Last Changed Date: 2011-03-06 04:42:01 -0800 (Sun, 06 Mar 2011) > ---- > > (I do have some file changes there to force a commit) > > Does anyone know why svn info would work while svn commit would not? > > Thanks, > - Jonathan
