On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:18 PM, B V <docra...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Newest svn crashes, apparently from using the --username command line > option. > > We use MSBuild community tasks in our automated build. It attempts to issue > subversion commands, and these commands work with older svn version 1.6.17, > but fail with current versions. The commands are of the form: > > svn.exe update "<server location>" "<local directory>" --username <name> > --password <pass> --non-interactive --no-auth-cache > > My attempts to investigate seem to show that the only part of that that is > causing a crash individually is --username (possibly --password , too, I > did not try with only the password option) > > This happens with Sliksvn and collabnet svn.
This is a known issue, a new bug introduced in 1.7.7. See this post: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2012-10/0099.shtml A fix has already been made, and will be released in 1.7.8. In the meantime you should probably roll back to 1.7.6 if this issue impacts you. -- Johan
