Its been a while since I've done it, but these thoughts came to mind:
1) did you set the hook script to executable?
2) revprops are unique by revision, so maybe your url needs to be:
svn://home.srvr/path_to/repo/ ( vice what you wrote:
svn://home.srvr/path_to/trunk/) ?
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Greg Willits <lists_at_gregwillits.ws> wrote:
> I have found several how-to's, but my attemps are still failing to change an
> existing commit message.
>
> OS X 10.5, built-in svn (1.4.4)
>
> Following this and several blogs with similar commentary
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#change-log-msg
>
> I get this error message:
>
> pre-revprop-change' hook failed with error output:
>
> but there's no other description of the error.
>
> Steps I've followed:
>
> I found the /{repo}/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl file, and I removed the
> .tmpl extension. The owner of that script file is the same as the user under
> which svnserve is running.
>
> Example command I'm trying:
>
> svn propset -r 50 --revprop svn:log "...my_new_msg..."
> svn://home.srvr/path_to/trunk/
>
> and
>
> svn propedit -r 50 --revprop svn:log (then using my editor)
>
> I even went so far as to edit the hook script to have nothing in it but
> exit 0 to force the return of 0.
>
> Seems like this should be simple, but I'm missing something.
>
> -- gw
>
>
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