Mark Phippard wrote:
> Daniel Serodio <daniel.listas@xxx.com.br> wrote on 06/21/2006 01:32:24 PM:
>
>> I have not used "Configure Branches/Tags" on this project.
>> I right-clicked the project's root, and chose Compare With Branch/Tag...
>> I selected the URL corresponding to the tag I wanted in the "Compare to:
>> URL" field, and clicked Ok.
>> An empty error dialog pops up (screenshot @
>> http://img354.imageshack.us/my.php?image=subclipsecomparebug2oh.png).
>> There's nothing in Eclipse's log.
>>
>> Eclipse 3.2RC4a and Subclipse 1.2.2
>>
>
> First off, it wouldn't have anything to do with whether you configured the
> branches/tags. That would just give you a more friendly picker for
> entering the URL.
>
> This error happens when a NPE happens inside the compare process. I have
> fixed several of these in the past, seems to happen a lot when using
> svn:externals.
>
I don't use svn:externals, so it can't be the cause.
> I would have thought the latest releases would have eliminated all of
> these. Drats. These are really, really hard to fix and find because the
> Eclipse compare swallows the exception and produces this empty dialog. You
> might get different results by changing your adapter preference.
>
I'm using JavaSVN 1.0.6. My repository is acessible both by http:// and
svn://, and the URL that caused this error was http://. I changed it to
svn://, and the problem went away. Hope this helps finding the cause.
I don't think Eclipse should be swallowing exceptions, have you reported
a bug on this?
TIA,
Daniel Serodio
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Received on Thu Jun 22 15:50:06 2006
