On 8/29/06, John Rouillard <rouilj@renesys.com> wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I am running the following command and get the weird output below:
>
> tigris> svn list svn+ssh://svn@tigris/
> svn: Syntax error parsing revision 'tigris'
>
> It looks to me like the parser thinks that @tigris is a peg revision
> specifier. If I change it to:
>
> tigris> svn list svn+ssh://svn@tigris/core
>
> I get the expected list. Variants of the URL:
>
> svn+ssh://svn@tigris/.
> svn+ssh://svn@tigris
>
> also yield the same "parsing revision" error message.
>
> This all came to light when I changed the forced command for the svn
> user on tigris from:
>
> /tools/subversion-1.3/bin/svnserve -t --tunnel-user=rouilj
>
> to:
>
> /tools/subversion-1.3/bin/svnserve -t -r ~svn/dev-repository \
> --tunnel-user=rouilj
>
> so that I could move the repository location without my users having
> to do a switch --relocate.
>
> The involved versions of the software on this fedora core 2 box
> (tigris) are:
>
> subversion-1.2.1-0.1.1.fc2.rf
> subversion-1.3-1
> neon-0.24.7-2.1
> apr-0.9.4-11
>
> In this case and the case below the subversion 1.3-1 were locally
> built and packaged. Now another box running Centos 4.3 with revisions:
>
> subversion-1.1.4-2.ent
> subversion-1.3-1
> neon-0.24.7-4
> apr-0.9.4-24.5
>
> doesn't have this problem, but another Centos 4.3 box with a newer apr:
>
> apr-0.9.4-24.5.c4.1
>
> does exhibit this problem. Could this issue be caused by code in the
> apr library?
It has nothing to do with APR. It's simply that peg revs didn't show
up until an older version of subversion.
> Has this problem been identified (I didn't see it online). Is it fixed
> (by some other changes maybe) in 1.4?
>
> I am looking at reverting the svnserve command line change and making
> it "-r ~svn", but that would mean my users will have to do svn
> switches and they will still need to know the physical location of the
> repository which is less than ideal.
This is issue http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2349,
which has a work around for the problem. Unfortunately nobody has
come up with a real fix. Patches to correct it would be most welcome
though.
-garrett
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Received on Tue Aug 29 23:11:35 2006