Re: Error during checkout - svn: Date parsing failed

On Mon 2004-05-17 at 11:43:08 -0500, you wrote
> Okay, I figured out my problem. I was using the examples of svn propset
> from the online book, which all seem to have the property value enclosed
> in single quotes. You do NOT want this when setting svn:date! It keeps
> the quotes as part of the property value, and thus causes the Date
> parsing failed message to occur.

Just a minor clarification for other readers: quite probably this has
nothing to do with svn:date being special, but with the shell Greg
used (MS-DOS box?).

So you should read this as "you do not want this when setting
properties under Windows with the same shell as Greg used". The
examples work fine with bash and tcsh (under Linux) and should work
with any reasonable UNIX-style shell (Cygwin under Windows should be
fine, too). Usually svn doesn't see the single quotes at all, because
the shell already handled and removed them. Apparently Windows works
different here.

As the book says at the start, the examples are written with a UNIX
shell in mind.

Bye,

        Benjamin.

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Received on Tue May 18 21:30:16 2004