On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:00, Petra Langebroek <Petra.Langebroek_at_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.Langebroek_at_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.Langebroek_at_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
Received on 2010-09-01 17:09:45 CEST