I am a new svn administrator and also the primary user. I'm stuck on an issue
which I can't resolve and would like some help.
On a server I have svn running which I access via apache. I'm at revision 220
on this particular repository so it seems to be mostly working correctly. I
flubbed the revision log on a check in (I like to associate svn revisions with
bug IDs) and want to correct this, but running propset or propedit never
succeed.
A bit of information about the server side set-up ...
[apache@X hooks]$ id
uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) ...
apache@X hooks]$ pwd
Y/hooks
[apache@X hooks]$ ls -l pre-revprop-change
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache apache 2890 Sep 2 08:39 pre-revprop-change
<< so I seem to have a valid hook
[apache@irvine hooks]$ tail -14 pre-revprop-change
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
USER="$3"
PROPNAME="$4"
ACTION="$5"
echo "running" >/tmp/tmp
<< a test to see if the hook is run
exit 0;
<< always succeed (as a debug aid)
if [ "$ACTION" = "M" -a "$PROPNAME" = "svn:log" ]; then exit 0; fi
if [ "$ACTION" = "A" -a "$PROPNAME" = "svn:author" ]; then exit 0; fi
echo "Changing revision properties other than svn:log is prohibited" >&2
exit 1
I placed the two lines 'echo "running" >/tmp/tmp' and 'exit 0;' in the file as
a debugging aid.
[apache@X hooks]$ ls /tmp/tmp
ls: cannot access /tmp/tmp: No such file or directory
<< I believe that running the hook would create this file
So whatever is going on I don't think the hook is even being run.
---
On my work station I have the following output:
[dgb@Z c15]$ svn log -r220
<< so I'm in a valid working directory and have repo access
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r220 | dgb | 2011-09-01 16:13:26 -0700 (Thu, 01 Sep 2011) | 1 line
reslove bug 189
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[dgb@Z c15]$ svn propset svn:log "a new comment" --revprop -r220
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
svn: Error setting property 'log':
Revprop change blocked by pre-revprop-change hook (exit code 255) with no
output. << this is what I'd like to work
[dgb@Z c15]$ date
Fri Sep 2 10:04:15 PDT 2011
<< this is when the failure occurred
Back on the server
[root@X httpd]# pwd
/var/log/httpd
[root@X httpd]# tail -4 error_log
[Fri Sep 02 08:51:32 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.138] Revprop change
blocked by pre-revprop-change hook (exit code 255) with no output. [500,
#165001]
[Fri Sep 02 08:51:32 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.138] Could not execute
PROPPATCH. [500, #206]
[Fri Sep 02 08:51:32 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.138] Revprop change
blocked by pre-revprop-change hook (exit code 255) with no output. [500,
#165001]
<< there are errors,
but they are old
<< (whatever that means)
[root@X httpd]# date
Fri Sep 2 10:00:13 PDT 2011
[root@X httpd]# tail -4 svn_logfile
[02/Sep/2011:09:25:04 -0700] dgb rev-proplist r220
[02/Sep/2011:09:25:38 -0700] dgb change-rev-prop r220 svn:log
[02/Sep/2011:09:54:44 -0700] dgb log (/trunk) r220:220 revprops=(svn:author
svn:date svn:log)
[02/Sep/2011:09:55:27 -0700] dgb change-rev-prop r220 svn:log
<< svn is aware of the request
The propset command fails with or without the URL appended. In the error_log
there are indications of previous failures, but I no longer get those even when
I remove the pre-revprop-change file. I've tried svn propedit remotely and
locally. Remotely the command doesn't load the the current log message and
fails. Locally the command at least loads the current comment into the editor,
but when I close the editor the update fails with the same error messages as it
does remotely.
[root@X httpd]#svn --version
svn, version 1.6.13 (r1002816)
compiled Oct 5 2010, 09:54:56
Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).
The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
- handles 'http' scheme
- handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- with Cyrus SASL authentication
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme
I'd appreciate any help in gettin this working. Thank you so much for reading.
Best Regards
Douglas
