Sorry, I didn't reply to the group... here is the reply.
Right now it is set to vim. But I have had it set to Notepad, Notepad2 and
Notepad++. In all cases the editor has opened (even now it opens).
I know it is set because I can invoke it just by calling %SVN_EDITOR% from
the command line to open the editor.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt <
subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 18:32, Robert Gonzalez wrote:
>
> I have run into a problem recently that I don't know how to solve. Google
>> is not being my friend and neither is the SVN manual.
>>
>> When I attempt to commit my changes from the command line on Windows my
>> editor opens up with an old commit log message. It also does not have the
>> svn status of changed/added/deleted files in it. When I delete the log
>> message that is in the editor and replace it then save it and exit my
>> editor, I get the following message from SVN:
>>
>> Code:
>> Log message unchanged or not specified
>> (a)bort, (c)ontinue, (e)dit:
>>
>>
>> If I choose continue the commit happens but without a log message. If I
>> choose edit, another svn-commit.tmp file opens, this time #2, with a
>> different old log message. When I change that, save it and exit the editor,
>> I get the same message from SVN. In fact, I get this message no matter what
>> I do when committing from the command line, regardless of which editor I am
>> using (I have tried this with vim, Notepad, Notepad2 and Notepad++, all with
>> the same result). SVN just keeps making a bunch of svn-commit.tmp files, and
>> it always seems to keep the oldest three messages in the first of the three
>> commit message log files.
>>
>> I can definitely pass the message with the -m flag, and I can also send
>> the message when using tortoise. This is only happening from the command
>> line in Windows (XP SP2).
>>
>> SVN Client details:
>> Code:
>> C:\>svn --version
>> svn, version 1.6.4 (r38063)
>> compiled Aug 5 2009, 12:42:52
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
>> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
>> This product includes software developed by CollabNet (
>> http://www.Collab.Net/).
>>
>> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>>
>> * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
>> Neon.
>> - handles 'http' scheme
>> - handles 'https' scheme
>> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network
>> protocol.
>> - with Cyrus SASL authentication
>> - handles 'svn' scheme
>> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
>> - handles 'file' scheme
>> * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
>> serf.
>> - handles 'http' scheme
>> - handles 'https' scheme
>>
>>
>> My question is, how do I fix this? I just want SVN to forget about the old
>> commit message logs and let me commit with the current status. What do I
>> need to do?
>>
>
> It sounds like your EDITOR (or SVN_EDITOR) environment variable is not set
> up correctly. What is it set to?
>
>
>
>
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Robert Gonzalez
http://www.robert-gonzalez.com
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