Re: [Subclipse-users] Invalid PROPFIND request failed errors

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Kenneth Evans <evans_at_aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> I am getting svn: PROPFIND request failed messages regularly when updating several projects at once using Subclipse.  I updated to the latest (1.5.3 I think -- they all have different versions)  but it still happens.  It is Eclipse 3.4.1.  They are bogus as the updates succeed when run later.  The ones that fail are apparently random.  The repository that causes the problem is on Sourceforge.
>
> This is a major nuisance as I have several workspaces with more than 50 projects that I update on a daily basis.  Instead of going away and letting the updates run, I have to watch each one and then redo the ones that fail.
>
> This is an example.
>
> update C:/eclipseWorkspaces/Fable2Dev/jdom -r HEAD --force
>    svn: Received fatal alert: illegal_parameter
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svnroot/fable/!svn/bln/4434'
>    svn: Received fatal alert: illegal_parameter
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svnroot/fable/!svn/bln/4434'
>
> If there is an illegal_parameter, it is coming from Subclipse.  I just do Team | update.

This is unlikely to have any thing to do with Subclipse. We just call
a simple API. The work is all done in the SVN libraries or SVNKit.
Given that there is no sign of anyone ever having that error on the
SVN users@ list, I'd guess you are either using SVNKit, or it is some
kind of problem on the SourceForge servers.

SVN's Java API is pretty simple. There is no real chance of providing
invalid options to it. Here is an example:

http://svn.collab.net/svn-javadoc/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/SVNClientInterface.html#update%28java.lang.String,%20org.tigris.subversion.javahl.Revision,%20int,%20boolean,%20boolean,%20boolean%29

All the real work happens inside the API.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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